Nachsicht / Forbearance Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages über Nachsicht / Forbearance:

The problem with forbearance is that it always looks like a good thing to do until it stops working. Raghuram Rajan

And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources, had trained me with skill and patience, and had shown me nothing but forbearance and charity when I failed in trust.

Simon Raven

The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as we list; and the right we possess to the forbearance or assistance of other men.

William Godwin

The example afforded before the Great War by Germany - which, if only it had exercised forbearance for another five or ten years, would by now be unrivaled in Europe - suggests that the task facing us now is to build up our strength calmly and with circumspection.

Isoroku Yamamoto

The problem with forbearance is that it always looks like a good thing to do until it stops working.

Raghuram Rajan

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.

Mahatma Gandhi

Forbearance is the root of quietness and assurance forever.

Tokugawa Ieyasu

Mutual forbearance and reciprocal concessions: thro' their agency the Union was established - the patriotic spirit from which they emanated will forever sustain it.

Martin Van Buren