Patience Quotes - Page 26

• All things come to those who wait.

  Violet Fane

  Funny Inspirational, Life Changing, Funny Motivational

  Violet Fane (1872). “From Dawn to Noon: Poems”, p.85

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• We are telling the American people to have patience, courage, resolve and determination.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Determination, People, Resolve

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• Just take your time - wave comes. Let the other guys go, catch another one.

  Duke Kahanamoku

  Time, Swimming, Guy

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• . . . Have patience and be faithful unto death. Do not fight among yourselves. Be perfectly pure in money dealings. . . . We will do great things yet. . . . So long as you have faith and honesty and devotion, everything will prosper.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Faith, Perseverance, Honesty

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2064, Manonmani Publishers

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• I haven't been given many things, but I've been given ample, limitless patience.

  Lincoln Diaz-Balart

  Limitless, Given, Havens

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• All this hurrying soon will be over. Only when we tarry do we touch the holy.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Mindfulness, Holy, Hurrying

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2005). “In Praise of Mortality: Selections from Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

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• Bear patiently with a rival.

  Ovid

  Enemy, Rivals, Bears

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• And then--a Day as huge
  As Yesterdays in pairs,
  Unrolled its horror in my face--
  Until it blocked my eyes

  Emily Dickinson

  Gratitude, Eye, Yesterday

  Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.168, Harvard University Press

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• Patience is the key to content.

  Muhammad

  Keys, Optimism

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• Order marches with weighty and measured strides. Disorder is always in a hurry.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Inspirational, Order, Haste

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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. One must seem to hear the unreasonable demands of the petulant, unmoved, and the tedious details of the dull, untired. That is the least price that a man must pay for a high station.

  Bill Vaughan

  Men, Details, Stories

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• Patience is moral elasticity.

  Austin O'Malley

  Moral, Elasticity

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• The best fire doesna flare up the soonest.

  George Eliot

  Passion, Fire, Flare Up

  George Eliot (1873). “Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot”, p.67

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• There is no such thing as preaching patience into people, unless the sermon is so long that they have to practice it while they hear. No man can learn patience except by going out into the hurlyburly world, and taking life just as it blows. Patience is but lying to, and riding out the gale.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Lying, Blow, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1860). “Life thoughts”, p.61

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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

  Looks, World, Noise

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “High Tide in Tucson”, p.196, Faber & Faber

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• See your road through.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

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• Patience is the capacity to endure all that is necessary in attaining a desired end. ... Patience never forsakes the ultimate goal because the road is hard. There can be no patience without an object.

  Margaret Kennedy

  Goal, Ends, Capacity

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• A weed is a plant we've found no use for yet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Weed, Use, Plant

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• Never change horses in midstream.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Horse, Never Change

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• Let nothing disturb thee,
  Nothing affright thee;
  All things are passing;
  God never changeth;
  Patient endurance
  Attaineth to all things;
  Who God possesseth
  In nothing is wanting;
  Alone God sufficeth.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Endurance, Patient, Never Change

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.694, Library of America

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• Patience; accomplish thy labor; accomplish thy work of affection!
  Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.
  Therefore accomplish thy labor of love, till the heart is made godlike,
  Purified, strengthened, perfected, and rendered more worthy of heaven.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Strong, Heart, Heaven

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.112

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• The more haste, the less speed.

  John Heywood

  Haste, Speed

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.384

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• You can butcher the sheep only once. But if you are careful, you can shear the sheep every year.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Sheep, Years, Butchers

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2013). “The Signature of All Things”, p.10, A&C Black

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• There was a patient look on the old man's face, as if the world were a great mistake and he had nobody with whom to speak his own language or find companionship.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Mistake, Men, Endurance

  Sarah Orne Jewett (2016). “The Country of the Pointed Firs”, p.78, Sarah Orne Jewett

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• There are no short cuts to Heaven, only the ordinary way of ordinary things.

  Vincent McNabb

  Cutting, Heaven, Way

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