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John Quincy Adams (top)
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
- John Quincy Adams


Saint Aurelius Augustine (top)
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
- Saint Aurelius Augustine


Ambrose Bierce (top)
Patience: A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.
- Ambrose Bierce


Edmund Burke (top)
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
- Edmund Burke


Marcus Cato (top)
Patience is the greatest of all virtues.
- Marcus Cato


Lord Chesterfield (top)
Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.
- Lord Chesterfield


John Dryden (top)
Beware the fury of a patient man.
- John Dryden


Ralph Waldo Emerson (top)
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson


Homer (top)
The fates have given mankind a patient soul.
- Homer


Victor Hugo (top)
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
- Victor Hugo


Franklin P. Jones (top)
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
- Franklin P. Jones


Helen Keller (top)
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
- Helen Keller


Stanislaw J. Lec (top)
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
- Stanislaw J. Lec


Michel de Montaigne (top)
Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.
- Michel de Montaigne


Titus Maccius Plautus (top)
Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.
- Titus Maccius Plautus


Chinese Proverb (top)
One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life.
- Chinese Proverb


Dutch Proverb (top)
A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.
- Dutch Proverb


Saint Francis de Sales (top)
Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering you own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew.
- Saint Francis de Sales


William Shakespeare (top)
How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
- William Shakespeare
How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees.
- William Shakespeare


Paul Sweeney (top)
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?
- Paul Sweeney


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


Leonardo da Vinci (top)
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 then be powerless to vex your mind.
- Leonardo da Vinci