Tolerance Quotes
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For people of different faiths to coexist, it's going to take maturity, wisdom, and patience. All of which come, eventually, with tolerance. And it's a process of time.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Compassion and love constitute non-violence in action. They are the source of all spiritual qualities: forgiveness, tolerance, all the virtues. They give meaning to our activities and makes them constructive. There is nothing amazing about being rich or highly educated; only when the individual has a warm heart do these attributes become worthwhile.
Dalai Lama
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Regarding mutual tolerance: It is negative in one sense, but positive in another. It absolutely forbids us to be forward in pronouncing on the meaninglessness of forms of existence other than our own; and it commands us to tolerate, respect, and indulge those whom we see harmlessly interested and happy in their own ways, however unintelligible these may be to us. Hands off.
William James
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I think we have to understand that when tolerance becomes a one-way street, it will lead to cultural suicide. We should not allow the Muslim Brotherhood or associated groups to be influencing our national security strategy.
Allen West
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Those wearing tolerance for a label call other views intolerable.
Phyllis McGinley
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Always try to maintain complete tolerance and always make an effort to give people more then they expect.
Scott Hamilton
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It is our enemies who provide us with the challenge we need to develop the qualities of tolerance, patience and compassion.
Dalai Lama
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Tim is learning about his high tolerance of others’ inappropriate behavior and is beginning to get free of this often subtle form of mistreatment.
Charles L. Whitfield
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Zero-tolerance on drinking and driving - meaning no drinking at all before driving - is a collective punishment that, in essence, only affects responsible adults who follow the law.
David Harsanyi
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I probably should have had a little more tolerance with Jimmy Johnson. Seriously.
Jerry Jones
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According to the people who dearly would love to throw him out of office, Barack Obama was elected to be 'above politics.' He wasn't elected to be president, after all. He was elected as an avatar of American tolerance. His attempts to get himself reelected imply a certain, well, ingratitude.
Charlie Pierce
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Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger. Instead of getting angry nurture a deep caring and respect for troublemakers because by creating such trying circumstances they provide us with invaluable opportunities to practice tolerance and patience.
Dalai Lama
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You can't have pride without humility. Aggression without tolerance. Strength without compassion. Power without restraint.
D. J. MacHale
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Those who are unprepared to demonstrate tolerance cannot expect or even demand tolerance for themselves.
Walter Kasper
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There is an inherent tolerance and kindness in the state school teenagers I know.
Arabella Weir
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In any endeavor, you have to understand your tolerance for risk. What's a failure you can afford?
Christie Hefner
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Instead of condemning people, let's try to understand them. Let's try to figure out why they do what they do. That's a lot more profitable and intriguing than criticism; and it breeds sympathy, tolerance and kindness.
Dale Carnegie
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Tolerance actually does exist on Broadway.
Kelsey Grammer
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Honestly, I just have to do what's right for me, and what I would tell people is what I believe, which is that tolerance is very important.
Martina McBride
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Government doesn't have a high tolerance for failure.
John Hickenlooper
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Compassion, tolerance, forgiveness and a sense of self-discipline are qualities that help us lead our daily lives with a calm mind
Dalai Lama
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For the Left, tolerance does not mean tolerance. It means first, acceptance. And second, celebration. That is totalitarianism: You not only have to live with what you may differ with, dear citizen, you have to celebrate it or pay a steep price.
Dennis Prager
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More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion.
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America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance - it is not. It is suffering from tolerance. Tolerance of right and wrong, truth and error, virtue and evil, Christ and chaos. Our country is not nearly so overrun with the bigoted as it is overrun with the broadminded.
Fulton J. Sheen