Donna Summer Quotes

Patience helps us to view imperfections in others more generously to the end that we may learn to be more wise than they have been.

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.

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

I don't think it's good to try and change anyone. The trick and the mystery - of relationships and life in general - is to learn to live with the bits you don't like.

Tolerance is an acquired taste. It is not innate. You build tolerance.

I've gotten really good at not judging characters.

I think it's all about people loving each other and having compassion, accepting one another and educating themselves.

I think we ought to give ourselves more time. We should be more patient with ourselves and with each other.

Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.

One must learn to forgive and not to hold a hostile, bitter attitude of mind, which offends those about us and prevents us from enjoying ourselves. One must recognize human shortcomings and adjust himself to them rather than to be constantly finding fault with them.

Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It's a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actually doing it.

Our Lord has many weak children in his family, many dull pupils in his school, many raw soldiers in his army, many lame sheep in his flock. Yet he bears with them all, and casts none away. Happy is that Christian who has learned to do likewise with his brethren.

Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others; for thou hast many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou art not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will?

I am sensible that he who means to do mankind a real service must set down with the determination of putting up, and bearing with all their faults, follies, prejudices and mistakes until he can convince them that he is right.

But I'm here to serve people. I'm not here to wave my finger in people's faces and point out to them how terrible they are or what I hate about them or anything along those lines. That's not my place. I'm in no position to condemn anybody.

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

I just don't know that shame and fear need to be our teachers; rather, compassion, understanding, and love should be our guides.

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.

I guess the older I get, the more understanding and forgiving I've become.

If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody.

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.