Patience Quotes - Page 28

• 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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• The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly upon unassisted genius and natural sagacity.

  Samuel Johnson

  Generations, Genius, Disease

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.237

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• When the precipitancy of a man's wishes hurries on his ideas ninety times faster than the vehicle he rides in--woe be to truth!

  Laurence Sterne

  Men, Ideas, Wish

  Laurence Sterne (1849). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy ... [etc.] ; with a Life of the Author Written by Himself”, p.215

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• [On being an actor] .nothing more than a worker in a service occupation . It's like being a waiter or a gas station attendant, but I'm waiting on 6 million people in a week if I'm lucky.

  Harrison Ford

  Time, People, Waiting

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• We have scarcely gotten home ... when our children's sneezes greet us, skinned knees bleed after waiting all day to do so. There is the bellyache and the burned-out basement bulb, the stalled car and the incontinent cat. The windows frost, the toilets sweat, the body of our spouse is one cold shoulder and the darkness of our bedroom is soon full of the fallen shadows of our failures.

  William H. Gass

  Time, Children, Failure

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• Extreme patience and persistence are required,
  Yet everybody succeeds at this before being handed
  The surprise box lunch of the rest of his life.

  John Ashbery

  Life, Growing Up, Persistence

  John Ashbery (1981). “Shadow train: poems”, Viking Adult

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• I'm bidin' my time,
  'Cause that's the kinda guy I'm.

  Ira Gershwin

  Guy, Waiting, Causes

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• Logic can be patient, for it is eternal.

  Oliver Heaviside

  Patient, Logic, Eternal

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• There is one form of hope which is never unwise, and which certainly does not diminish with the increase of knowledge. In that form it changes its name, and we call it patience.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Names, Doe, Increase

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• Let things alone; let them weigh what they will; let them soar or fall.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fall, Action, Soar

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.361, Penguin

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• Don't throw the ball before you have it.

  Vern Law

  Balls

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• Don't halloo until you're out of the wood.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Woods

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• To toughen up, is to calm down.

  Doug Melvin

  Humility, Calm, Calm Down

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• A very little thief of occasion will rob you of a great deal of patience.

  William Shakespeare

  Thieves, Littles, Deals

  William Shakespeare, Philip Brockbank (1976). “Coriolanus: Second Series”, p.152, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Patience is sottish, and impatience does become a dog that's mad.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Mad, Doe

  William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.169

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• He felt the comfort of being part of an eternal cycle symbolized by the gold strips on either side of the black mourning band he wore. Light, dark, light. The dark was just an interval.

  Jack Campbell

  Dark, Light, Mourning

  Jack Campbell (2009). “The Lost Fleet: Relentless”, p.144, Penguin

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• You seem to have quite a taste for discussing these horrible subjects," she said, rather scornfully; "you ought to have been a detective police officer.

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon

  Police, Taste, Detectives

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lyn Pykett (2012). “Lady Audley's Secret”, p.124, Oxford University Press

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• The first lesson to learn is to resign oneself to the little difficulties in life, not to hit out at everything one comes up against. If one were able to manage this one would not need to cultivate great power; even one's presence would be healing.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Healing, Would Be, Needs

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1963). “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Sufi Teachings”, p.93, Library of Alexandria

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• Well, we must wait for the future to show.

  Virginia Woolf

  Waiting, Shows, Wells

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “To the Lighthouse”, p.98, Virginia Woolf

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• I’m saying that I can wait. For now. But when things get back to normal—assuming that ever happens—I want my shot. We can make each other happy, Faythe. I know it. And I’m done walking away from things I want just because they don’t come easily. You’re worth the work.

  Rachel Vincent

  Walking Away, Waiting, Done

  Rachel Vincent (2009). “Prey”, p.257, MIRA

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• The word 'jihad' has nowhere been used in the Qur'an to mean war in the sense of launching an offensive. It is used rather to mean 'struggle'. the action most consistently called for in the Qur'an is the exercise of patience. (p. 7-8)

  Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

  War, Struggle, Mean

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• This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don't get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can't do anything, don't get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it's ready to come undone. You have to realize it's going to be a long process and that you'll work on things slowly, one at a time.

  Haruki Murakami

  Blow, Tangled, Long

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• Patience is God's nature.

  Tertullian

  Tertullian (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Tertullian (Annotated Edition)”, p.1161, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Patience was not my strong point.

  Lauren Bacall

  Strong

  Lauren Bacall (2005). “By Myself and Then Some”, Large Print Press

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• Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Motivational, Spring, Cutting

  Robert H. Schuller (1993). “Robert H Schuller: The Inspirational Writings : Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do/Tough Minded Faith for Tender Hearted People”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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