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Patience

Patience is counting down without blasting off

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Best Quotes about Patience

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.

Kafka, Franz

Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

In all evils which admits a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes the time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might remove the cause.

Johnson, Samuel

If you are tempted to lose patience with your fellowman; stop and think how patient God has been with you.

Every man must patiently bide his time. He must wait -- not in listless idleness but in constant, steady, cheerful endeavors, always willing and fulfilling and accomplishing his task, that when the occasion comes he may be equal to the occasion.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

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Patience and the passage of time do more than strength and fury.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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

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If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.

Isaac Newton

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To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success.

Maistre, Joseph De

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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.

Faulkner, William

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I do oppose my patience to his fury, and am arm'd to suffer with a quietness of spirit, the very tyranny and rage of his.

William Shakespeare

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Patience is counting down without blasting off

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How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

William Shakespeare

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Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Granville, George

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Carrey, Jim

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Dios tarda pero no olvida -- God delays but doesn't forget.

Proverb, Spanish

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Be patient. The path of self-discipline that leads to God-realization is not an easy path: obstacles and sufferings are on the path; the latter you must bear, and the former overcome -- all by His help. His help comes only through concentration. Repetition of God's name helps concentration.

Ramdas, Swami

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Perfection is attained by slow degrees; she requires the hand of time.

Voltaire

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Patience in the present, faith in the future, and joy in the doing

Perera, George

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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

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Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

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Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

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Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

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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

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Had it pleas'd heaven to try me with affliction... I should have found in some place of my soul a drop of patience.

William Shakespeare

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

Arnold, Matthew

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There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.

Franz Kafka

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A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

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Patience is sottish, and impatience does become a dog that's mad.

William Shakespeare

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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

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Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

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Patience carries a lot of wait

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Let this be understood, then, at starting; that the patient conquest of difficulties which rise in the regular and legitimate channels of business and enterprise is not only essential in securing the success which you seek but it is essential to that preparation of your mind, requisite for the enjoyment of your successes, and for retaining them when gained. So, day by day, and week by week; so month after month, and year after year, work on, and in that process gain strength and symmetry, and nerve and knowledge, that when success, patiently and bravely worked for, shall come, it may find you prepared to receive it and keep it,

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Cobbett, William

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Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow -- that is patience.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Like farmers we need to learn that we cannot sow and reap the same day.

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Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice.

Jackson, George Holbrook

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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

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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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There will be a time when loud-mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self destruct. It never fails.

Richard Rybolt