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Quotes About Tolerance

All'usignolo che non sappia tollerare la spina è meglio non parlare mai della rosa.
~ Idries Shah
I'm not patient, and some things drive me crazy. In my work, I get incredibly upset when people don't get it right or don't respect others' needs.
~ Colin Firth
That's the beauty of things, right? People should be able to believe what they want to, follow who they want to
~ Colin Meloy
Well, the correct answer is he is not a Muslim, he's a Christian. He's always been a Christian. But the really right answer is, what if he is? Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country?
~ Colin Powell
Any time you tolerate mediocrity in others, it increases your mediocrity, An important attribute in successful people is their impatience with negative thinking and negative acting people
~ Colin Powell
A little patience always goes a long way.
~ Unknown
Accepting and understanding difference is the key to progression.
~ Unknown
Do not fight, love instead. It's less hard that way.
~ Unknown
Hate not, for the day may come when doing so, will make you feel it forever.
~ Unknown
He who can relate to all is he who will go further than any other.
~ Unknown
Only the fool forces all to believe his beliefs.
~ Unknown
The narrower your mind, the narrower your life will be.
~ Unknown
The Philosophy is for all; faith and faithless alike.
~ Unknown
We must learn about difference for difference to become the normal.
~ Unknown
Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.
~ Unknown
When Mrs. Carlton from church said she was shocked to see a Catholic next to Jesus in the McGinty house, Sam's mother stopped pouring coffee into her cup. "Well, Gloria, God loves everyone. Even the bigots." Mrs. Carlton picked up her purse and left. Daddy loved that story.
~ Unknown
She drove back to the harbor, where she had lived in Erie own all of her adult life. Across the bridge and into "the land of her people," Aunt Lizzie like to say. So ridiculous, really. Why shouldn't the Italians live with the Irish, and the blacks and Puerto Ricans, for that matter? The men worked together, and sometimes drank in the same bars. They all cheated on their wives, too, and the women kept putting up with them no matter how you pronounce their last names.
~ Unknown
Lorraine's voice was kind and patient. Personally, I'd have told the kid to shut up and get in the car. Guess that's why I don't have kids.
~ Unknown
I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.
~ Coretta Scott King
Nothing is as difficult as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerance and the milk of human kindness. The person who achieves must generally be a one-ideaed individual, concentrated entirely on that one idea, and ruthless in his aspect toward other men and other ideas.
~ Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
Corrie, if people can be taught to hate, they can be taught to love! We must find the way, you and I, no matter how long it takes.
~ Corrie Ten Boom
if people can be taught to hate, they can be taught to love!
~ Corrie Ten Boom
if people can be taught to hate, they can be taught to love! We must find the way, you and I, no matter how long it takes. . . .
~ Corrie Ten Boom
That was Father's secret: not that he overlooked the differences in people; that he didn't know they were there. And
~ Corrie Ten Boom