Quotes and Sayings About Patience
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A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it's tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows?
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Patience will benefit you in every hour, every time and every opportunity. It helps you to overcome your opponent, howsoever strong he may be. It will help you in times of distress and hardships, in battles and in war and peace.
-- Abd al-Karim QasimSource : Abd al-Karim Qasim's historical extempore speech at the Reserve Officers' College, 1959.
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It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words, "And this too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
-- Agnes Repplier -
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Waiting does not exist in the experience of those who recognize the presence of love wherever they are.
-- Alan Cohen -
Patience is like ice cold water running through your veins, but our love will be immense
-- Alejandro Perez -
Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.
-- Alice Walker -
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Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
-- Andre Gide -
A man without patience is a lamp without oil.
-- Andres Segovia -
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Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?
-- Andrew Greeley -
Always remember that your humanity is what will touch the people of the world.
-- Ann M. Fudge -
Try looking at your mind as a wayward puppy that you are trying to paper train. You don't drop-kick a puppy into the neighbor's yard every time it piddles on the floor. You just keep bringing it back to the newspaper.
-- Anne Lamott -
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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.
-- Anne Morrow LindberghSource : Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1975). “GIFT FROM THE SEA”
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I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory.
-- Anthony Hamilton -
Don't try to rush things: for the cup to run over, it must first be filled.
-- Antonio MachadoSource : Antonio Machado, Alan S. Trueblood (1982). “Selected poems”, Harvard Univ Pr
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Patience is so like fortitude that she seems either her sister or her daughter.
-- Aristotle -
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Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.
-- Baltasar Gracian -
Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
-- Barbara JohnsonSource : Barbara Johnson (2008). “When Your Child Breaks Your Heart: Help for Hurting Moms”, p.134, Revell
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Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.
-- Barbara Kingsolver -
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Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
Everything comes if a man will only wait.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
He that can have patience can have what he will.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Patience wins the race.
-- Bernard BartonSource : Bernard Barton (1828). “A new year's eve, and other poems”, p.38
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deferring gratification is a good definition of being civilized.
-- Bernice Fitz-GibbonSource : Bernice Fitz-Gibbon (1967). “Macy's, Gimbels, and Me: How to Earn $90,000 a Year in Retail Advertising”
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The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
-- Bertrand Russell