"Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius."

Disraeli, Benjamin on genius
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"Patience is passion tamed."

Abbott, Lyman on patience
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"Our patience will achieve more than our force."

Burke, Edmund on patience
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"He that can have patience can have what he will."

Franklin, Benjamin on patience
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"Patience means self-suffering."

Gandhi, Mahatma on patience
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"Heaven grant us patience with a man in love."

Kipling, Rudyard on patience
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"Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience."

Ma, Sri Anandamayi on patience   

"You will conquer by patience."

Motto on patience
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"Patience makes a woman beautiful in middle age."

Paul, Elliot on patience
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"Patience when teased is often transformed into rage."

Proverb on patience
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"An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains."

Proverb, Dutch on patience   

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"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on patience
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"Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy."

Saadi on patience
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"For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required."

Proverb, Indian on friends and friendship
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"Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength"

Colton, Charles Caleb on patience
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"Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice."

Jackson, George Holbrook on patience
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"Patience and the passage of time do more than strength and fury."

La Fontaine, Jean De on patience
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"Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul."

Bacon, Francis on patience
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"The patience of the hunter is always greater than that of the prey."

Saying, Traditional on patience   

"Patience is not active; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on patience
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"Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears."

Johnson, Barbara on patience   

"Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in one ahead."

Mcglashen, Bill on patience   

"There are times when God asks nothing of his children except silence, patience and tears."

Robinson, C. S. on patience   

"In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience."

Prescott, W. B. on patience
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"That which in mean men we entitle patience is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts."

Shakespeare, William on patience
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"Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; Hold fast; Hold out. Patience is genius."

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc on patience
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"The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open."

Glasgow, Arnold H. on patience   

"Of all the things that tax a man's patience, there's nothing to compare with a stuck zipper."

Unknown, Source on patience   

"Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on patience
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"If you are tempted to lose patience with your fellowman; stop and think how patient God has been with you."

Unknown, Source on patience   

"Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request."

Chesterfield, Lord on patience   

"Life on a farm is a school of patience; you can't hurry the crops or make an ox in two days."

Alain, Henri on farming and farmers   

"It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience."

Caesar, Julius on pain
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"I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy."

Einstein, Albert on patience
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"Like stones, words are laborious and unforgiving, and the fitting of them together, like the fitting of stones, demands great patience and strength of purpose and particular skill."

Morrison, Edmund on writers and writing
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"Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury."

Quarles, Francis on anger
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"Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake."

Hugo, Victor on courage
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"The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love."

Gibran, Kahlil on love
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"Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity."

Jung, Carl on happiness
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"Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt."

Francis of Assisi, St. on wisdom
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