Quotes About Tolerance

Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.

The best way to get along with people is not to expect them to like you.

Live in harmony with one another; do not be haughty (snobbish, high-minded, exclusive), but readily adjust yourself to [people, things] and give yourselves to humble tasks.

does another, or to harass by repeated biting and snapping."2

Prime?ti ceea ce tolerezi.

Patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting.

Patience is not the ability to wait but how you act while you're waiting.

the kind of sadness we tolerate because it appears at happy moments

Don't be a jerk. Try to love everyone. Give more than you take. And do it despite the fact that you only really like about 7 out of five hundred people.

As long as she loves me and I love her, what difference does religion make?

But I have discovered that if you love someone the way I love Mew, you learn to overlook the disgusting things.

Ei ole niin väliä, ketä rakastaa, kunhan rakastaa.

In this world, unity is achievable only by learning to unite in spite of differences, rather than insisting on unity without differences. For their total eradication is an impossibility. The secret of attaining peace in life is tolerance of disturbance of the peace. (p. 99)

If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if you behave properly wit those holding divergent views from you or who criticize you, then you deserve to be credited with having an excellent character. (p. 99)

Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.

Wisdom is knowing what you can accept.

It would be easy to call it quits. Occasionally I have these moments, not often. There is nothing to do but sit still until they pass. Tantrums and passions I don't need, endurance is what I need. I have found that it is even possible to take a certain pleasure out of submission to necessity. That have I borne, this can I bear also.

Human qualities and emotions like love, charity, compassion, tolerance, patience, friendship, desire, hatred, ill-will, ignorance, conceit, etc., need no sectarian labels; they belong to no particular religion.

Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world; it is appeased by love. This is an eternal Law.

To be attached to one thing (to a certain view) and to look down upon other things (views) as inferior—this the wise men call a fetter.'2

This spirit of tolerance and understanding has been from the beginning one of the most cherished ideals of Buddhist culture and civilization. That is why there is not a single example of persecution or the shedding of a drop of blood in converting people to Buddhism, or in its propagation during its long history of 2500 years. It spread peacefully all over the continent of Asia, having more than 500 million adherents today.

You think the only people who are people, are the people who look and think like you. But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew you never knew.

velké bratrství mladých lidí bez rozdílu p?vodu, rasy a vyznání.

Reason leavened with a little wit (if possible) is the real alternative to hate speech, meaning that there's no better time for it.