"Patience permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord when we are tossed about by suffering as if by surf. When the undertow grasps us we will realize that we are somehow being carried forward even as we tumble. We are actually being -helped even as we cry for help."

Maxwell, Neal A. on patience   

"Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it."

Munger, Thornton T. on life   

"There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on life
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"If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an exceedingly difficult secret language that only skilled professional readers and story-tellers could interpret. Then people like you would have to go to public halls and pay good prices to hear the professionals decode and read the books aloud for you. This plan would have the advantage of scaring off all amateur authors, retired politicians, country doctors and I-Married-a-Midget writers who would not have the patience to learn the secret language."

Davies, Robertson on books - reading
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"The best generals I have known were... stupid or absent-minded men. Not only does a good army commander not need any special qualities, on the contrary he needs the absence of the highest and best human attributes -- love, poetry, tenderness, and philosophic inquiring doubt. He should be limited, firmly convinced that what he is doing is very important (otherwise he will not have sufficient patience), and only then will he be a brave leader. God forbid that he should be humane, should love, or pity, or think of what is just and unjust."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on generals   

"Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]"

Shakespeare, William on patience
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"Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent."

Forbes, B. C. on patience
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"If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow."

Proverb, Chinese on anger
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"A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once."

Faulkner, William on patience
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"Half a psychiatrist's patients see him because they are married -- the other half because they're not."

Glasgow, Arnold H. on psychiatry   

"Why were the saints, saints? Because they were cheerful when it was difficult to be cheerful, patient when it was difficult to be patient; and because they pushed on when they wanted to stand still, and kept silent when they wanted to talk, and were agreeable when they wanted to be disagreeable. That was all. It was quite simple and always will be."

Unknown, Source on enthusiasm
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"A patient going to a doctor for his first visit was asked, And whom did you consult before coming to me? Only the village druggist, was the answer. And what sort of foolish advice did that numbskull give you? asked the doctor, his tone and manner denoting his contempt for the advice of the layman. Oh, replied his patient, with no malice aforethought, he told me to come and see you."

Unknown, Source on doctors
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"A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation."

Russell, Bertrand on duty   

"Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love."

Kempis, Thomas on love
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"The wayside of business is full of brilliant men who started out with a spurt, and lacked the stamina to finish. Their places were taken by patient and unshowy plodders who never knew when to quit."

Todd, J. R. on determination   

"Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, until the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on present   

"Patience. A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue."

Bierce, Ambrose on patience
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"With love and patience, nothing is impossible."

Ikeda, Daisaku on impossibility
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"Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on patience
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"Patience is the key to contentment."

Mohammed on patience
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"Patience is counting down without blasting off"

Unknown, Source on patience   

"The greatest power is often simple patience."

Cossman, E. Joseph on power
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"Nature, time and patience are the three great physicians."

Bohn, H. G. on doctors
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"Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience."

Boese, Paul on patience
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"It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness."

Santayana, George on happiness
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"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."

Adams, John Quincy on obstacles
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"Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness."

Huxley, Thomas H. on perseverance
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"With virtue you can't be entirely poor; without virtue you can't really be rich."

Proverb, Chinese on virtue
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"How poor are they that have not patience. What wound did ever heal but by degrees?"

Shakespeare, William on patience
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"The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare."

Major, John on politics   

"If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives."

SeVigne, Marquise De on patience   

"Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave."

Gandhi, Indira on forgiveness
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"Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume."

Proverb, French on beauty
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"Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man."

Carlyle, Thomas on virtue   

"Virtue alone is invincible."

Motto on virtue   

"Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person."

Virgil on virtue
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"Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man."

Smith, Adam on humankind   

"Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice."

Paine, Thomas on moderation
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"Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All things pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for; He who has God Finds he lacks nothing;"

Unknown, Source on abundance
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"Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors."

Confucius on practice
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