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• Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement.

  Vera Nazarian

  Achievement, Virtue

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• Patience means self-suffering.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Acceptance, Self

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.61, Hackett Publishing

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• That which in mean men we entitle patience is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.

  William Shakespeare

  Mean, Men, Noble

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Second Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.24, BookCaps Study Guides

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• When you feel gloomy, think what has been done within the last year. How, rising from nothing.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Perseverance, Thinking, Years

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1984, Manonmani Publishers

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• We can do anything, or almost, but how balanced, magnanimous, and modest one has to be to do anything! And also how patient. It is as true in the arts as anywhere else.

  May Sarton

  Art, Patient, Modest

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.10, Open Road Media

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• Know it for certain that without steady devotion for the Guru and unflinching patience and perseverance, nothing is to be achieved. You must have strict morality.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Perseverance, Morality, Devotion

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3373, Manonmani Publishers

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• Everything comes if a man will only wait.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Hope, Men, Expectations

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.3352, Delphi Classics

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• To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Perfection, Done, Bears

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• Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

  Cato the Elder

  Virtue, Fame, Patience Is A Virtue

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• How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

  William Shakespeare

  Degrees, Poor, Heal

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 2, sc. 3, l. [379]

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• I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.

  Robert Falcon Scott

  Long, Waiting, Trying

  Robert Falcon Scott (2012). “Scott's Last Expedition: Diaries, 26 November 1910 - 29 March 1912”, p.62, Amberley Publishing Limited

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• The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

  Epictetus

  Wise, Philosophical, Power

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• Patience is the mother of will.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Mother

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• Perhaps then, some day far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Depression, Mindfulness, Questions And Answers

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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• And you very soon find out, if you have not found it out before, that patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

  Thomas Huxley

  Inspirational, Life, Perseverance

  "Critiques and Addresses".

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• The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

  George Washington

  Inspiration, 4th Of July, Men

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• Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.

  Carl Sandburg

  Inspirational, Nature, Roots

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “The People, Yes”, p.25, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• No man can be patient who has not strong passions, for patience is passion tamed.

  Lyman Abbott

  Strong, Passion, Men

  Lyman Abbott (2009). “The Theology of an Evolutionist”, p.118, Cambridge University Press

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• If, like the prophet Noah, you have patience in the distress of the flood, Calamity turns aside, and the desire of a thousand years comes forth.

  Hafez

  Years, Desire, Prophet

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• Nihil tam acerbum est in quo non æquus animus solatium inveniat.
  There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind can not find some solace for it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Mind, Patient, Solace

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• On the whole, it is patience which makes the final difference between those who succeed or fail in all things. All the greatest people have it in an infinite degree, and among the less, the patient weak ones always conquer the impatient strong.

  John Ruskin

  Strong, Failure, Differences

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• In order to make friends you must first be friendly

  Dale Carnegie

  Order, Friendly, Firsts

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• The real test is not whether you avoid failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it. . .

  Barack Obama

  Perseverance, Real, Failure

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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

  Life, Encouraging, Wise

  Address beforeWisconsin State Agricultural Society, Milwaukee,Wis., 30 Sept. 1859

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• Waiting is an art that our impatient age has forgotten. It wants to break open the ripe fruit when it has hardly finished planting the shoot. But all too often the greedy eyes are only deceived; the fruit that seemed so precious is still green on the inside, and disrespected hands ungratefully toss aside what has so disappointed them.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Art, Eye, Hands

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas”, p.4, Westminster John Knox Press

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