Tolerance Quotes

• Tolerance is the uncomfortable feeling that in the end the other could be right.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Feeling
  • Tolerance
  • Uncomfortable

• Tolerance should really be only a temporary attitude; it must lead to recognition. To tolerate means to offend.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Attitude
  • Tolerance
  • Recognition

• Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant.

  

  Sidney Hook
  • Tolerance
  • Limits
  • Intolerant

• God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Grant me the patience with changes that take time, appreciation of all that I have, tolerance of those with different struggles, and the strength to get up and try again, one day at a time.

  

  Reinhold Niebuhr
  • Time
  • Change
  • Wisdom

• Odor of blood when Christ was slain Made all Platonic tolerance vain And vain all Doric discipline.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Discipline
  • Christ
  • Vain

• Let's be careful when we start comparing American to European tolerance because there isn't necessarily a lot of European tolerance.

  

  Montel Williams
  • Tolerance
  • Europe
  • Careful

• Business is not a spiritual matter, and my business decisions are not based on spiritual considerations. When I founded the Essence of Life, a project aimed at teaching tolerance and respectful dialogue, the person appointed to head it was Irit Atzmon, a former colonel in the army. Can anything be more down-to-earth than that?

  

  Shari Arison
  • Decision
  • Spiritual
  • Army

• Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.

  

  Hedy Lamarr
  • Tolerance
  • Philosophical
  • Compromise

• Don't do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.

  

  Stanley Kubrick
  • Suffering
  • Tolerance

• India will teach us the tolerance and gentleness of mature mind, understanding spirit and a unifying, pacifying love for all human beings.

  

  Will Durant
  • Teach
  • Tolerance
  • Human Beings

• There's a big difference between tolerance and approval, and I have no right to expect or demand the latter from anyone.

  

  Norah Vincent
  • Tolerance
  • Demand
  • Approval

• Increasingly, people have very little tolerance for anything that smacks of propaganda.

  

  Rebecca MacKinnon
  • Littles
  • Tolerance
  • Propaganda

• Tolerance comes of age. I see no fault committed that I myself could not have committed at some time or other.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Time
  • Tolerance
  • Committed

• In fishing, golf and gardening, if you don't have a healthy tolerance for your own ineptitude, then it isn't for you.

  

  William Bernard Ziff, Jr.
  • Healthy
  • Fishing
  • Gardening

• I never did drugs and I can't really drink because I have zero tolerance for alcohol, so my vice became women. I was never faithful to most of them.

  

  Scott Vincent James Baio
  • Drug
  • Drink
  • Alcohol

• I have a low tolerance for mediocrity in music and life. I'm into pain and joy and the in-between doesn't interest me.

  

  Steve Earle
  • Pain
  • Joy
  • Interest

• I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Language
  • Tolerance
  • Lovers

• It's not always the strong that survive. It takes brains, guts, tolerance and forward thinking.

  

  Georges St-Pierre
  • Strong
  • Brain
  • Tolerance

• Canada's eminent position today is a tribute to the patience, tolerance, and strength of character of her people, of both French and British strains. For Canada is enriched by the heritage of France as well as of Britain, and Quebec has imparted the vitality and spirit of France itself to Canada. Canada's notable achievement of national unity and progress through accommodation, moderation and forbearance can be studied with profit by her sister nations.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Character
  • Patience
  • Canada`s

• The heart of wisdom is tolerance.

  

  Steven Erikson
  • Heart
  • Wisdom
  • Tolerance

• September 11 was, and remains, above all an immense human tragedy. But September 11 also posed a momentous and deliberate challenge not just to America but to the world at large. The target of the terrorists was not only New York and Washington but the very values of freedom, tolerance and decency which underpin our way of life.

  

  Tony Blair
  • World
  • Challenges
  • Tragedy

• The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. Mere tolerance has given place to a sentiment of brotherhood between sincere men of all denominations.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Age
  • Brotherhood
  • Sincere

• I mean, if you accept something, you take it for what it is. Tolerance is different. Less.

  

  Bill Konigsberg
  • Different
  • Tolerance
  • Accept

• The first step toward tolerance is respect and the first step toward respect is knowledge.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Tolerance
  • Steps

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