Patience Quotes - Page 13

• He who has infinite patience and infinite energy at his back, will alone succeed.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Perseverance, Energy, Succeed

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.206, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience.

  Star Jones

  Compassion, Married, Compromise

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• Arm the obdured breast with stubborn patience as with triple steel.

  John Milton

  Steel, Stubborn, Arms

  John Milton (1837). “Paradis perdu: de Milton”, p.122

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• It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.

  George Santayana

  Marriage, Appreciate, Unhappy

  Life of Reason (1905) vol. 2, ch. 2

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• Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.

  W. H. Auden

  Success, Work, Paradise

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• When I was 20, I thought I was 30 - but I was so far from it. When you're young, you want everything to happen now. As you mature, you can look back and see all the great things you achieved with time and patience.

  Elisha Cuthbert

  Looks, Want, Mature

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• It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world.

  William Cobbett

  Time, Life And Love, Ambition

  William Cobbett (1850). “Cottage Economy: Containing Information Relative to the Brewing of Beer, Making of Bread, Keeping of Cows, Pigs, Bees, Ewes, Goats, Poultry, and Rabbits, and Relative to Other Matters Deemed Useful in the Conducting of the Affairs of a Labourer's Family : to which are Added, Instructions Relative to the Selecting, the Cutting and the Bleaching of the Plants of English Grass and Grain, for the Purpose of Making Hats and Bonnets : and Also Instructions for Erecting and Using Ice-houses, After the Virginian Manner”, p.11

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• A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Time, Believe, Political

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• In all evils which admit a remedy, impatience is to be avoided, because it wastes that time and attention in complaints, that, if properly applied might remove the cause.

  Samuel Johnson

  Evil, Might, Waste

  "The Rambler".

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• We are independent of the change we detect. The longer the lever, the less perceptible its motion. It is the slowest pulsation which is the most vital. The hero then will know how to wait, as well as to make haste. All good abides with him who waiteth wisely; we shall sooner overtake the dawn by remaining here than by hurrying over the hills of the west.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Change, Hero, Independent

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.532, Simon and Schuster

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• A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

  John Updike

  Inspirational, Years, People

  Assorted Prose (1965) "Confessions of a Wild Bore"

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• Patience makes lighter / What sorrow may not heal. ("sed levius fit patientia quidquid corrigere est nefas")

  Horace

  Sorrow, May, Fit

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• Patience is sorrow's salve.

  Charles Churchill

  Sorrow

  Charles Churchill (1822). “The Poems of Charles Churchill”, p.246

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• The faster you go, the shorter you are.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

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• 'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Hamlet And Ophelia, Speech

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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 Lindbergh

  Beach, Nature, Lying

  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

  Perseverance, Pain, Dedication

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• We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Eggs, Fowl, Hatching

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.404, Wildside Press LLC

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• Rule by patience, Laughing Water!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Water, Laughing

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.205, Library of America

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• Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Revenge, Planning, Uncommon

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.141, 谷月社

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• If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives.

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Giving, Optimism, Littles

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• Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.

  David Mallet

  Gratitude, Sweet, Humility

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• Great patience is called for on the hard path that I have entered on.

  Edgar Degas

  Path, Hard, Great Patience

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• Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

  B. C. Forbes

  Reality, Men, Thinking

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• We usually learn to wait only when we have no longer anything to wait for.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Waiting

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