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Forbearance Quotes

Patience and quiet restraint

This collection gathers forbearance quotes about staying patient through hardship, echoing the idea that quiet restraint is the root of lasting calm.

When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou have passed through. Forbearance is the root of all quietness and assurance forever.

Quotes by Tokugawa Ieyasu

And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources, had trained me with skill and patience, and had shown me...

Quotes by Simon Raven

A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to his elders, to preserve his purity; he ought not to despise humility, but should love forbearance and modesty. All these...

Quotes by Saint Ambrose

We have not sought this conflict; we have sought too long to avoid it; our forbearance has been construed into weakness, our magnanimity into fear, until the vindication of our manhood, as well as the defence of our rights, is...

Quotes by Robert Toombs

Afforded Quotes

The problem with forbearance is that it always looks like a good thing to do until it stops working.

Quotes by Raghuram Rajan

Mutual forbearance and reciprocal concessions: thro' their agency the Union was established - the patriotic spirit from which they emanated will forever sustain it.

Quotes by Martin Van Buren

The example afforded before the Great War by Germany - which, if only it had exercised forbearance for another five or ten years, would by now be unrivaled in Europe - suggests that the task facing us now is to...

Quotes by Isoroku Yamamoto

Frequently Asked Questions

What do these forbearance quotes focus on?
They focus on patience and self-restraint, especially the idea that staying calm through hardship builds lasting quietness and confidence over time.
Is forbearance treated as a personal virtue or a shared one?
Both. Some quotes describe forbearance as an inner discipline learned through past hardship, while others frame it as a mutual concession between groups that keeps a larger union together.
Do any quotes connect forbearance to youth or upbringing?
Yes, one describes a good youth as someone who honors elders and parents while preferring forbearance and modesty over pride, tying the virtue to early character-building.
Are these quotes from historical or modern sources?
The collection blends older, more formal language about civic union with plainer personal reflection, giving forbearance a broad, timeless feel rather than one narrow era.
Where can I read more quotes with a similar theme of patience?
You can browse related reflections on staying steady under pressure in the Calmly quotes collection.

Other lines here look at forbearance as a civic virtue too, the mutual concessions that let people of different ages and backgrounds hold something together.