John Wanamaker Quotes

Just knowing you don't have the answers is a recipe for humility, openness, acceptance, forgiveness, and an eagerness to learn - and those are all good things.

You accept certain unlovely things about yourself and manage to live with them. The atonement for such an acceptance is that you make allowances for others - that you cleanse yourself of the sin of self-righteousness.

I saw that we're all doing the best we can. This is how a lifetime of humility begins.

As a matter of fact, we are none of us above criticism; so let us bear with each other's faults.

John Wanamaker, founder of the stores that bear his name, once confessed: "I learned thirty years ago that it is foolish to scold. I have enough trouble overcoming my own limitations without fretting over the fact that God has not seen fit to distribute evenly the gift of intelligence.

If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.

Keep up a humble sense of your own faults, and that will make you compassionate to others

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'm a very contented, peaceful man. I made mistakes, yes, but I accepted them, and, I hope, graciously.

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

My aim in life is not to judge.

A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.

People have weaknesses, we should accept it.

To be okay with not knowing is a sign of a mature person and a mature society.

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.

We have a tendency to want the other person to be a finished product while we give ourselves the grace to evolve.

We all have weaknesses. But I have figured that others have put up with mine so tolerably that I would be much less than fair not to make a reasonable discount for theirs.

Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of ‘not knowing.

Wink at small faults; remember thou hast great ones.

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.

For a person who cherishes compassion and love, the practice of tolerance is essential, and for that, and enemy is indispinsable. So we should be grateful to our enemies, for it is they who can best help us to develop a tranquil mind.

Everyone deserves love and appreciation. If there is someone in the world whom we do not love, it is our blessing to work this out within ourselves. A very key spiritual principle, echoed in the Cayce readings as well as mainstream psychology, is that whatever we see in others that makes us angry, sad or jealous is a reflection of an issue we have in ourselves. If we can learn to love, respect and forgive ourselves, then we will not be angered and offended by what we see in others.

The three most difficult things for a human being are not physical feats or intellectual achievements. They are, first, returning love for hate; second, including the excluded; third, admitting that you are wrong.

If any man thinks ill of you, do not be angry with him, for you are worse than he thinks you to be.

Once you have accepted yourself, it's so much easier to accept other people and their points of view.