Monte Irvin Quotes

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

You have to work on forgiveness and love, and that includes your own self.

If someone is misrepresenting my playing career, I try to correct them. If they say something mean about me I'll let them know it hurts my feelings. But I've noticed that the best thing for me is to show love back to them and show positivity and by doing that you gain a fan.

I think we're all trying our hardest, and a lot of times we do bad things and need to do more good things. We need to be more caring, more forgiving, more loving.

I don't waste time despising people.

I have become a person who can focus more on love.

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.

Maybe one of you can enlighten me, but I just don't understand why it is so hard to be kind to one another?

I think it is important that we rebuild an atmosphere of forgiveness and civility in every aspect of our lives.

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

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

Me being a compassionate person, I would never hold any grudges against my ex.

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

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So, from that standpoint, there is some truth and good in everything.

I've learned never to expect people to be better than they are, but to always have faith that they can be more.

I made a promise to myself to be kinder to other people.

I like to think that I'm trying to choose love over most things, but that's my choice.

I should have been kinder when I was younger.

Better to be a loving person without knowing how you got there, than an expert no one can stand to be around.

I don't hold grudges.

My father was an absolutely wonderful human being. From him I learned to always assume positive intent. Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent.

You have perspective when little people come into your life. You take the best things you have and let them overshadow your disappointment.

Never too late to change your relationship with somebody in your life.

Conflict, when handled correctly, strengthens.