Forbearance Quotes

Who knows the heart of the Christian? How does he reason? What are his measures and balances? Which is his season For laughter, forbearance or bloodshed, and what devils move him When he arises to smite us? I do not love him. - Rudyard Kipling

We thank riders for their patience and forbearance. We will be providing various details regarding the outcome of this strike in the next several days. - Roger Toussaint

We thank our riders for their patience and forbearance. - Roger Toussaint

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 required at our hands. - Robert Toombs

We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just, we forgive everything. For that very reason we ought to discipline ourselves a little; for that very reason we ought to cultivate a little emotion, a little emotional vice, from time to time. It may be hard for us; and among ourselves we may perhaps laugh at the appearance we thus present. But what of that! We no longer have any other mode of self-overcoming available to us: this is our asceticism, our penance. - Friedrich Nietzsche

We are in the process of doing everything within our power to get resources down to the state of Florida... everybody's patience and forbearance. - Michael Chertoff

There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue. - Edmund Burke