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• Seek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls.

  Maya Angelou

  Wall, Passion, Temples

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  Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

  May Sarton

  Life, Nature, Garden

  May Sarton (2017). “The Journals of May Sarton Volume One: Journal of a Solitude, Plant Dreaming Deep, and Recovering”, p.97, Open Road Media

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• All things are difficult before they are easy.

  Thomas Fuller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Gnomologia". Book by Thomas Fuller, 560, 1732.

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• Above all, trust in the slow work of God.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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• This world is not for cowards. Do not try to fly. Look not for success or failure. Join yourself to the perfectly unselfish will and work on. Know that the mind which is born to succeed joins itself to a determined will and perseveres. You have the right to work, but do not become so degenerate as to look for results. Work incessantly, but see something behind the work. Even good deeds can find a man in great bondage. Therefore be not bound by good deeds or by desire for name and fame. Those who know this secret pass beyond this round of birth and death and become immortal.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Perseverance, Men, Names

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Work and Its Secret”, p.12, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• It is hard! But what can not be removed, becomes lighter through patience.

  Horace

  Can Not, Lighters, Hard

  "Carmina", I. 24. 19 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 583-584), 1922.

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  You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

  William Faulkner

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• It is in length of patience, endurance and forbearance that so much of what is good in mankind and womankind is shown.

  Arthur Helps

  Endurance, Forbearance, Length

  Sir Arthur Helps (1876). “Realmah”, p.232

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• The Scriptures contain many stories of people who waited years or even decades before the Lord's promises came to pass. What modern believers can learn from the patience of biblical saints like Abraham, Joseph, David, and Paul is that waiting upon the Lord has eternal rewards.

  Charles Stanley

  Biblical, Years, People

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• The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Life, Motivational, Perseverance

  Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1961). “War and peace”

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• Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.

  Thucydides

  Men, Politics, Manifestation

  Thucydides (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thucydides (Illustrated)”, p.2245, Delphi Classics

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• Be content to progress in slow steps until you have legs to run and wings with which to fly.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Running, Wings, Progress

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

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Inspirational, Time, Maturity

  Elizabeth Taylor (1968). “A wreath of roses”

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• Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Business, Men, Quality

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• 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

  Happiness, Pain, Disappointment

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• Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

  Plautus

  Wisdom, Be Patient, Trouble

  "The Rope". Play by Plautus, 211 BC.

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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.

  Victor Hugo

  Inspirational, Life, God

  Victor Hugo (1898). “From exile, and after the fall of the Empire”

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• The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.

  Solomon Ibn Gabirol

  Tests, Table Manners, Patient

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• It does not matter how many tumbles you have in this life, so long as you do not get dirty when you tumble; it is only the people who have to stop to be washed and made clean, who must necessarily lose the race. And I can assure you that there is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. You learn that which is of inestimable importance

  Thomas Huxley

  Dirty, Race, Long

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1893). “Science & education”

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• Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

  John Ruskin

  Beauty, Perseverance, Ambition

  John Ruskin, Christine Roth (2004). “The Two Paths”, p.88, Parlor Press LLC

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• Be patient. Do the best with what you know. When you know more, adjust the trajectory.

  Jen Hatmaker

  Patient, Trajectory, Do The Best

  Jen Hatmaker (2012). “7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess”, p.109, B&H Publishing Group

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• The true secret in being a hero lies in knowing the order of things...Things must happen when it is time for them to happen.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Lying, Hero, Order

  "The Last Unicorn". Book by Peter S. Beagle, 1968.

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• For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

  John Burroughs

  Love, Life, Motivational

  John Burroughs, Charlotte Zoë Walker (2001). “The Art of Seeing Things: Essays”, p.239, Syracuse University Press

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• Do not be surprised that you fall every day; do not give up, but stand your ground courageously. And assuredly, the angel who guards you will honour your patience.

  John Climacus

  Christian, Courage, Giving Up

  Saint John (Climacus) (1959). “The Ladder of Divine Ascent”

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• If you create you will also wait, and while you're waiting you will want to be patient but not idle... responses from the world often take a long time.

  Eric Maisel

  Long, Waiting, World

  Eric Maisel (2000). “The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance”, p.236, Penguin

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