Thomas a Kempis Quotes

I've become a lot more tolerant; I think before I talk. I can take a lot now. I don't get as angry as I used to. Whenever I do, I channel my anger into my work.

The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.

I'll tell you what I did need to learn was tolerance, and I think I've been actually given a daily opportunity to practice that, and it's - it's - and I know that that sounds almost like a backhanded slap, and it is in a way because I haven't been successful at it every day.

For me, everyone has good and bad qualities. I feel you must not always look at the bad qualities but also focus on the good ones, because we all have flaws.

I'm not someone who feels anger on particular issues.

We all get angry and jealous sometimes, none of us is perfect, but we should not try to be different.

Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.

I have labored carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate, but to understand human actions

I've learned a lot. Being more compassionate.

I don't want to go on stage with anger. And that's why I worked so hard to look within and change myself and evolve.

the important consideration is not your opponents, but yourself. It is bad to scream at them, not because it hurts them, they ought to be hurt, but because it hurts you. Anger is a form of recognition. It amounts to admitting that those people are important to you and that they have the power to hurt you. Actually, they haven't.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.

I don't feel bitterness, I don't feel anger towards anybody. Fighting is never emotional to me.

I could be less impatient with people. I sometimes judge by impressions.

I was once a fairly angry person.

We are becoming able to see the pursuit of external power for what it is and the futility of trying to escape the pain of powerlessness by changing the world. When we look inward, not outward, we can dismantle the parts of our personalities that have controlled us for so long - such as anger, jealousy, vindictiveness, superiority, inferiority.

Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.

I have learnt to be even more patient.

Caregiving requires the intention of love, caretaking requires the intention of fear. Not acting in anger when you are angry requires the intention of love.

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

I'm too mature to be angry.

When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.

And again, hast thou valued Patience, Courage, Perseverance, Openness to light; readiness to own thyself mistaken, to do better next time

As I allow myself my own weaknesses, I should tolerate the weaknesses of others.