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Patience

Patience is counting down without blasting off

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Best Quotes about Patience

A high hope for a low heaven: God grant us patience!

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

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

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

Roux, Joseph

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.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Massinger, Philip

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

William Shakespeare

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Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

William Shakespeare

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Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

Bacon, Francis

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Voltaire

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Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Johnson, Barbara

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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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Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

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Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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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 counting down without blasting off

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

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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

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

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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

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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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A very little thief of occasion will rob you of a great deal of patience.

William Shakespeare

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Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

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Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Those who desire to become rich, desire it at once.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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

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A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

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

Carrey, Jim

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We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

Helen Keller

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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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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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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