patience

Patience

"A good cause is often injured more by ill-timed efforts of its friends than by the arguments of its enemies. Persuasion, perseverance and patience are the best advocates on questions depending on the will of others."
          --- Thomas Jefferson

"A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains."
          --- Dutch proverb

"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience."
          --- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

"All human power is a compound of time and patience."
          --- Honore de Balzac

"All men commend patience, although few be willing to practice it."
          --- Thomas Kempis

"Endurance is patience concentrated."
          --- Thomas Carlyle

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

"Experience, like a pale musician, holds/ A dulcimer of patience in his hand."
          --- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice."
          --- John Burroughs

"Genius is eternal patience."
          --- Michelangelo

"Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience."
          --- George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon

"Good things come to those who wait."
          --- Author Unknown

"He that can have patience can have what he will."
          --- Ben Franklin

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

"I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable."
          --- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"If the Lord wanted us to talk more than he wanted us to hear, He would have given us two mouths and only one ear."
          --- Kevin Rowley

"In the struggle between the stone and the water, in time, the water wins."
          --- Chinese Proverb

"It is strange... that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting."
          --- Elizabeth Taylor

"It takes care, it takes patience and fear and despair to change. Though you swear to change, who can tell if you do? It takes two."
          --- The Baker, Into The Woods [1991 Broadway musical]

"Lord grant me patience -- but please hurry."
          --- Author Unknown

"One with his hand in your pocket, his tongue in your ear and his faith in your patience."
          --- Ambrose Bierce

"Our patience will achieve more than our force."
          --- Edmund Burke

"Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures."
          --- Joseph Addison

"Patience and fortitude conquer all things."
          --- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight in cleverness."
          --- Thomas Henry Huxley

"Patience is a bitter plant, but it has sweet fruit."
          --- German proverb

"Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius."
          --- Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield Disraeli

"Patience is learning to hide impatience."
          --- Author Unknown

"Patience is the best remedy for every trouble."
          --- Plautus

" Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength."
          --- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

"Patience is understanding, or striving to understand."
          --- Shane P Sorenson

"Patience with others is Love, Patience with self is Hope, Patience with God is Faith."
          --- Adel Bestavros

"The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open."
          --- Arnold H. Glasgow

"The real secret of patience is to find something else to do in the meantime."
          --- Author Unknown

"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time."
          --- Leo Tolstoy

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

"You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience."
          --- Stanislaw J. Lec

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