Dalai Lama Quotes

We cannot overcome anger and hatred simply by suppressing them. We need to actively cultivate the antidotes: patience and tolerance.

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• The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
  • Courage
  • Tolerance
  • Test

• Together with international unity and resolve we can meet the challenge of this global scourge and work to bring about an international law of zero tolerance for terrorism.

  

  Manmohan Singh
  • Work
  • Together
  • Law

• A man with a silver spoon may get his share of supporters, but he can never be an inspiration for somebody! Patience and hard work are the key to every man's success.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Work
  • May
  • Success

• Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • Yourself
  • First
  • Patience

• Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Patience
  • Alcohol
  • Stupidity

• There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • God
  • Remember
  • Death

• I don't have a lot of patience for boring arthouse movies.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Movies
  • Patience
  • Boring

• For believers, both privilege and privation are a trial, and both demand responses: one demands service, and the other demands patience. The greatest privilege is to live well in flourishing lands; the greatest privation is to live in the midst of war, especially civil war.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Live
  • War
  • Service

• I will exercise patience and will provide all facts to the general public.

  

  Yingluck Shinawatra
  • Exercise
  • Facts
  • Patience

• Discomfort levels in our societies are rising, or so it would seem. In theory, we invoke diversity and tolerance. But in real life, we raise our hackles and withdraw into ourselves.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Life
  • Real
  • Diversity

• Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nature
  • Wisdom
  • Patience

• Guided by nothing but pop culture values, many children no longer learn how to think about morality and virtue, or to think of them at all. They grow up with no shared moral framework, believing that the highest values are diversity, tolerance and non-judgmentalism.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Up
  • Children
  • Culture

• I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Proud
  • Patience
  • Stupidity

• Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Success
  • Patience
  • Persistence

• You have to respect your parents. They are giving you an at-bat. If you're an entrepreneur and go into the family business, you want to grow fast. Patience is important. But respect the other party... My dad and I pulled it off because we really respect each other.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Important
  • Family
  • Business

• The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • World
  • Faith
  • Patience

• People have no tolerance. They think all bugs are bad. It's the American way. If you don't like something, kill it.

  

  Carl Olson
  • People
  • American
  • Bad

• Basically, discipline, effort, patience and courage are hugely important core values for kids to grow up embracing.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Up
  • Important
  • Kids

• People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.

  

  Assata Shakur
  • Free
  • Tolerance
  • Oppression

• The degree of pain we are experiencing at any time almost always includes two variables: the stimulus “causing” the discomfort, and the threshold for tolerance—that is, the capacity to overcome or perhaps reduce the sensation itself.

  

  Edwin H. Friedman
  • Pain
  • Tolerance
  • Sensation

• In order to succeed, you can't be afraid to fail. Just do it and don't let anybody tell you you can't.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Life
  • Order
  • Succeed

• Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart; I breathe at this hour the fragrance of the lilacs, the violets, and the roses, as at twenty years ago.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Heart
  • Winter
  • Violets

• We cannot overcome anger and hatred simply by suppressing them. We need to actively cultivate the antidotes: patience and tolerance.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Patience
  • Tolerance