Each week I will post quotes from a different virtue. Last week’s virtue was fortitude. This week’s virtue is forbearance.
Forbearance, or self-control, is the capability to use self-discipline under frustration. It is patience and cheerful easiness of setback s or ineptitude. Having forbearance means you can restrain your desires and instead permit attentive, more astute features of yourself to preside you’re your actions.
10 Virtue Wednesday Quotes: Forbearance
1. “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
2. “We have not sought this conflict; we have sought too long to avoid it; our forbearance has been construed into weakness, our magnanimity into fear, until the vindication of our manhood, as well as the defence of our rights, is required at our hands.”—Robert Toombs
3. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”—Martin Luther King Jr.
4. “Fear, anger, stubborness, and distrust portray themselves as your rescuers. Actually these energies only make you more closed off. Tell yourself: Nobody ever solved a situation by panicking; no one ever solved a situation by refusing to hear new answers; no one solved a situation by shutting down…”—Deepak Chopra
5. “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson
6. “A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.”—Carl Jung
7. “Conquer with forbearance. The excesses of insolence.”― Thiruvalluvar
8. “If people can be open-minded and magnanimous, be receptive to all, take pity on the poor and the old, assist those in peril and rescue those in trouble, give of themselves without seeking reward, never bear grudges, look upon others and self impartially, and realize all as one, then people can be companions of heaven. If people can be flexible and yielding, humble, with self-control, entirely free of agitation, cleared out all volatility, not angered by criticism, ignoring insult, docilely accepting all hardships, illnesses, and natural disasters, utterly without anxiety or resentment when faced with danger or adversity, then people can be companions of the earth. With the nobility of heaven and the humility of earth, one joins in with the attributes of heaven and earth and extends to eternity with them.”— Liu I ming
9. “The serenity of mind, gentleness, silence, self-restraint, and the purity of mind are called the austerity of thought.” –Bhagavad Gita
10. “When we think carefully, we see that the brief elation we experience when appeasing sensual impulses may not be very different from what the drug addict feels when indulging his or her habit. Temporary relief is soon followed by a craving for more. And in just the same way that taking drugs in the end only causes trouble, so, too, does much of what we undertake to fulfill our immediate sensory desires.”— Dalai Lama
Prudence, Justice, Fortitude, and Temperance – Benedict XVI
