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Quotes About Tolerance

Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
~ Bertrand Russell
Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
~ Dalai Lama
Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.
~ Dalai Lama XIV
One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.
~ Ira Gershwin
Unconditional acceptance of others is the key to happy relationships.
~ Brian Tracy
I pray for a more friendly, more caring, and more understanding human family on this planet. To all who dislike suffering, who cherish lasting happiness, this is my heartfelt appeal.
~ Dalai Lama
I am not in favor of imposing happiness on people. Everyone has a right to his bad wine, to his stupidity, and to his dirty fingernails.
~ Milan Kundera
Essentially pursuit of happiness is saying, everything's allowed until we come down on it.
~ Howard Rheingold
Why eye for an eye, when we can have smile for a smile ?
~ Harshvardhan Malpani
A smile and patience are two things that can never be over applied.
~ Gary Rudz
Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons labouring under ill-health.
~ Samuel Richardson
If being sane is thinking there's something wrong with being different, I'd rather be completely #$%^&^& mental.
~ Angelina Jolie
People of delicate health, selfish dispositions, and coarse minds, can always bear the sufferings of others placidly.
~ Isabel Burton
My wife, Edith, and I both have good health - and she's been very tolerant.
~ Darrell Royal
Rejection is a common occurrence. Learning that early and often will help you build up the tolerance and resistance to keep going and keep trying.
~ Kevin Feige
Don't wound someone's eye trying to remove the twig from it.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.
~ Carter G. Woodson
Prejudice doesn't make me mad. It just - I guess 'pisses me off' is the word.
~ Chuck Berry
There is room in history for all of us.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality.
~ Barack Obama
In world history, those who have helped to build the same culture are not necessarily of one race, and those of the same race have not all participated in one culture.
~ Ruth Benedict
Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
~ Émile Zola
Like I'm always telling my brothers, if you gonna go into history, you can't do it with a hate attitude. You got to remember, times was different.
~ Rebecca Skloot
The awful lesson of history is that we too often ignore people, just because they're foreigners or different from us.
~ Benedict Cumberbatch