Quotes about patience

"Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses."

Unknown, Source on patience
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"Patience is passion tamed."

Abbott, Lyman on patience
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"Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures."

Addison, Joseph on patience
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"Slow and steady wins the race."

Aesop on patience
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"With close-lipped Patience for our only friend, Sad Patience, too near neighbor to Despair."

Arnold, Matthew on patience   

"Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return."

Auden, W. H. 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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"Little by little, through patience and repeated effort, the mind will become stilled in the Self."

Bhagavad Gita on patience
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"Patience. A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue."

Bierce, Ambrose on patience
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"Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience."

Boese, Paul on patience
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"Inaction may be the biggest form of action."

Brown, Jerry on patience
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"There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience."

Bruyere, Jean De La on patience   

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on patience
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"Our patience will achieve more than our force."

Burke, Edmund on patience
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"Patience will achieve more than force."

Burke, Edmund on patience
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"It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience."

Bushnell, Horace on patience   

"If I'm not back in five minutes... just wait longer!"

Carrey, Jim on patience
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"Patience and shuffle the cards."

Cervantes, Miguel De on patience   

"I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose."

Chaplin, Charlie 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   

"It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world."

Cobbett, William on patience
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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 serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will be powerless to vex your mind."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on patience
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"Beware the fury of a patient man."

Dryden, John on patience
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"Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits."

Edison, Thomas A. on patience
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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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"Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on patience
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"Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen."

Epictetus on patience   

"The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing."

Epictetus on patience   

"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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"Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent."

Forbes, B. C. on patience
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"Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them -- every day begin the task anew -"

Francis De Sales, St. 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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"The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open."

Glasgow, Arnold H. on patience   

"The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on patience   

"Patience is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not."

Granville, George on patience   

"Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity."

Hardy, Thomas on patience
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"If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big."

Hesiod on patience