Jerry Jones Quotes

Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.

As Christians we need to be patient, understanding, and kind. Instead of going on the attack, we can ask genuine questions. Instead of bristling when our narrative is summarily dismissed, we can carefully explain our way of seeing things. And when we are wrong, we won't be afraid to say so.

Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.

Mostly I am sorry for the way I thought of other people. Like a good general, I had treated everyone who wasn't with me as against me.

If a man can beat you, walk him.

For me, everybody is the same. If you are not nice to me, I will say, 'Okay, we will try to make it nice tomorrow.' I am like that. I am not a confrontational person.

Love is kind, right? It's not about calling someone out on every little thing you feel.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.

The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.

Listen with grace, with no judgment, without imposing the law.

The least amount of judging we can do, the better off we are.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

It doesn't do any good to argue. Be kind.

I should have been kinder when I was younger.

The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways.

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience - I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed.

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

I think one ought always to be indulgent towards other people, as I always think, if we had not been well brought up and well taken care of, we might also have gone astray. That is always my feeling. Yet it is always right to show that one does not like to see what is obviously wrong; but it is very dangerous to be too severe, and I am certain that as a rule such people always greatly regret that in their youth they have not been as careful as they ought to have been.

Non-violence is a permanent attitude we bring to the breakfast table and bring to bed at night.

We don't have to live in a world where everyone reacts perfectly the first time around, and if you don't, everything falls apart, and no one speaks to you ever again.

I can't approach a character with judgment.

Please be kind, don't be judgemental.