William Allen White Quotes

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

As I allow myself my own weaknesses, I should tolerate the weaknesses of others.

I've learned a lot. Being more compassionate.

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.

The more that we self-analyze ourselves, the nicer we are to people and to ourselves, and the more we understand each other.

You have to see through one's faults before you see their need.

The longer I live, the larger allowances I make for human infirmities. I exact more from myself and less from 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'll tell you what I did need to learn was tolerance, and I think I've been actually given a daily opportunity to practice that, and it's - it's - and I know that that sounds almost like a backhanded slap, and it is in a way because I haven't been successful at it every day.

It's good for everyone to understand that they are to love their enemies, simply because your enemies show you things about yourself you need to change. So in actuality enemies are friends in reverse.

Since others have to tolerate my weaknesses, it is only fair that I should tolerate theirs.

If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.

In order to have understanding, you need forgiveness, compassion, and empathy.

People have weaknesses, we should accept it.

I have come to a point where I have accepted that not everyone is meant to be friends.

We are here to love, not to judge. I'd been blaming and raging. I certainly wasn't loving my daughter that afternoon as God loves me. God's love doesn't insist on perfection or even good common sense. Why then should I demand more of those I love? With this tiny change in perspective I began to see the need for correction wasn't in my daughter, but in me.

The first step to loving someone else is to recognize the evil in ourselves, so we can forgive them.

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.

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.

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

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.

To date, my biggest lesson may be that judgment of others is never a good thing.

We have a choice. We can seek for the bad in others. Or we can make peace and work to extend to others the understanding, fairness, and forgiveness we so desperately desire for ourselves. It is our choice; for whatever we seek, that we will certainly find.

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