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Patience

Patience is counting down without blasting off

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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.

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

Forbes, B. C.

Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.

Stanislaw J. Lec

You will conquer by patience.

Motto

Sometimes it helps to know that I just can't do it all. One step at a time is all that's possible -- even when those steps are taken on the run.

Schaef, Anne W.

It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

Elizabeth Taylor

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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.

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Patience is counting down without blasting off

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Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

Johnson, Barbara

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Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper sprinkle cool patience.

William Shakespeare

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Faulkner, William

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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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All things come to him who waits -- provided he knows what he is waiting for.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

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Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Patience is power; with time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.

Proverb, Chinese

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Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.

Saadi

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

Mcglashen, Bill

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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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A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

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Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach-waiting for a gift from the sea.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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

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I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

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Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.

Brian Adams

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

William Shakespeare

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Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.

Massinger, Philip

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

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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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Leonardo da Vinci

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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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The patience of the hunter is always greater than that of the prey.

Saying, Traditional

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Consider the hour-glass; there is nothing to be accomplished by rattling or shaking; you have to wait patiently until the sand, grain by grain, has run from one funnel into the other.

Morgenstern, John Christian

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

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Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman