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.
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...
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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...
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...
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The problem with forbearance is that it always looks like a good thing to do until it stops working.
Mutual forbearance and reciprocal concessions: thro' their agency the Union was established - the patriotic spirit from which they emanated will forever sustain it.
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...
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What do these forbearance quotes focus on?
Is forbearance treated as a personal virtue or a shared one?
Do any quotes connect forbearance to youth or upbringing?
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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.
