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Patience

Patience is counting down without blasting off

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Best Quotes about Patience

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

Carrey, Jim

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

Work and wait, work and wait is what God says to us in creation.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

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

Kafka, Franz

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

10.

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

11.

Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

12.

Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Massinger, Philip

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Bushnell, Horace

19.

Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

20.

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

George Jackson

21.

Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

22.

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

Epictetus

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

Margaret Thatcher

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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.

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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

26.

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

27.

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

William Shakespeare

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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 is counting down without blasting off

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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

34.

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

William Shakespeare

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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.

36.

In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.

Prescott, W. B.

37.

Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

38.

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Perera, George

40.

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

Voltaire

41.

Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

42.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

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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

44.

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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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

46.

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

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

William Shakespeare