Sharon Bolton Quotes

I've learned that it's OK to be flawed.

If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

To be fair, I don't get mad when people laugh at me when I fall down.

It would never occur to me to judge anyone.

I don't even correct people when they mispronounce my name now.

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.

If a person doesn't like me or doesn't like my game, OK, that's how they feel. Can't be upset with it.

You have to just figure out how to let it roll off of you, because no matter who you are or what you do, somebody's always going to disagree with something that you're doing or saying or something that you think or believe.

Let those who think I have said too little and those who think I have said too much, forgive me; and let those who think I have said just enough thank God with me.

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.

Let us often think of our own infirmities, and we shall become indulgent toward those of others.

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

I learned 30 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.

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.

Believe the best about people. Pray for their short comings. You are not the standard. We all need grace.

Grace only sticks to our imperfections. Those who can’t accept their imperfections can’t accept grace either.

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.

To treat an imperfect brother (or sister) impatiently is to advertise our own imperfections.

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?

Know that people are doing the best they can from their level of awareness. Accept people for who they are and always be ready to forgive.

I have lived a long time, and one thing I have come to see is that one is well served by a degree of both humility and charity when judging the inner workings of another person's heart

Whatever folly men commit, be their shortcomings or their vices what they may, let us exercise forbearance; remember that when these faults appear in others it is our follies and vices that we behold.

Were I to be angry at men being fools, I could here find ample room for declamation; but, alas! I have been a fool myself; and why should I be angry with them for being something so natural to every child of humanity?

Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.