Patience Quotations
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| Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. | |||
| - John Quincy Adams | |||
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| Patience is the companion of wisdom. | |||
| - Saint Aurelius Augustine | |||
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| Patience: A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue. | |||
| - Ambrose Bierce | |||
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| Our patience will achieve more than our force. | |||
| - Edmund Burke | |||
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| Patience is the greatest of all virtues. | |||
| - Marcus Cato | |||
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| Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request. | |||
| - Lord Chesterfield | |||
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| Beware the fury of a patient man. | |||
| - John Dryden | |||
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| Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. | |||
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson | |||
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| The fates have given mankind a patient soul. | |||
| - Homer | |||
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| 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 | |||
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| You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. | |||
| - Franklin P. Jones | |||
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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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| You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience. | |||
| - Stanislaw J. Lec | |||
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| 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 | |||
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| Patience is the best remedy for every trouble. | |||
| - Titus Maccius Plautus | |||
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| One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life. | |||
| - Chinese Proverb | |||
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| A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. | |||
| - Dutch Proverb | |||
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| 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 | |||
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| 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 | |||
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| 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 | |||
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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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| 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 | |||