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Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
– Hal Borland
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He that can have patience can have what he will.
– Benjamin Franklin
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Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours. Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.
– Phillip Brooks
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Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
– John Quincy Adams
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Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
– Saadi
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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
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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.
– Saint Thomas Aquinas
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Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
– Sir Francis Bacon
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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
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Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.
– Ambrose Bierce
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Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
– Ambrose Bierce
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When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets?
– Jim Bishop
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I think the Iraqi people have shown extraordinary patience and courage in the last few months. They have really put a political system on the way to success, to a real democracy here.
– Paul Bremer
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As I pass it, I feel as if I saw a dear old mother, sweet in her weakness, trembling at the approach of her dissolution, but not appealing to me against the inevitable, rather endeavouring to reassure me by her patience, and pointing to a hopeful future.
– Thomas Edward Brown
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There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.
– Jean de la Bruyere
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
– Edmund Burke
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Genius is eternal patience.
– Michelangelo
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It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.
– Julius Caesar
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I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.
– Charlie Chaplin
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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
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It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait, simply wait much of the time - until my instincts assured me that I had assembled my materials in proper order for a final welding into their natural form.
– Hart Crane
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Beware the fury of a patient man.
– John Dryden
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Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.
– Eknath Easwaran
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Abused patience turns to fury.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
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All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
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The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.
– Solomon Ibn Gabirol
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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
– William Golding
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Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?
– Andrew Greeley
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The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.
– Arnold H. Glasow
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My biggest weakness is patience, wanting to see things happen too quickly or get changes in place right away. Not having the patience to let things develop.
– Paul Gleason
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Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.
– Thomas Hardy
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That's why I never became a director. I never had patience with people.
– Ray Harryhausen
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Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry.
– Bret Harte
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Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.
– Heraclitus
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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
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Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.
– Frank McKinney Hubbard
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With love and patience, nothing is impossible.
– Daisaku Ikeda
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Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
– Barbara Johnson
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Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.
– Soren Kierkegaard
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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.
– Rudyard Kipling
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I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
– Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don't resent them, you are not fit to live.
– Bernard Mandeville
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The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.
– Ralph Marston
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Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.
– Philip Massinger
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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
– Sir Isaac Newton
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If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.
– Ilie Nastase
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Bear patiently with a rival.
– Ovid
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Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
– William Penn
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Patience makes a women beautiful in middle age.
– Elliot Paul
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I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience.
– Tyrone Power
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We are telling the American people to have patience, courage, resolve and determination.
– Muammar Qadhafi
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Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.
– Francis Quarles
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Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
– Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Lincoln because he was all the time pardoning men who ought to be shot.
– Elihu Root
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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
– Tertullian
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There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience.
– Chuck Tanner
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Patience is the art of hoping.
– Luc de Clapier de Vauvanargues
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Humility is attentive patience.
– Simone Weil
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My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker.
– Robert Wise
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Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.
– George Jackson
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We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
– Helen Keller
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You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
– Stanislaw J. Lec
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I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
– Edith Sitwell
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Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been obliged to listen to and patiently to bear.
– Peter Stuyvesant
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You know, writing is really difficult, and it takes a real patience and a skill. I don't know if I have that. I admire it in others, so much, and I envy it.
– Adam Scott
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You know, I lose patience really easily I'd rather shop in the grocery store than in the department store. I can pick an apple like nobody's business.
– Gail Simmons
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You have to find the peace and patience within yourself to be a model and an example to others and not judge.
– Judith Light
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Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.
– Herman Hesse
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Work hard. And have patience. Because no matter who you are, you're going to get hurt in your career and you have to be patient to get through the injuries.
– Randy Johnson
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When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so.
– Beverly Cleary
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We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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True enough, nature has endowed me with a fair measure of patience and composure, yet I should be lying if I told you that, having seen the reporter off on his way to make his deadline, I fell peacefully asleep.
– Leon Jouhaux
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Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience - I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed.
– Cee Lo Green
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This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.
– Wilkie Collins
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There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance.
– Cesar Chavez
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There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them.
– Larry Hagman
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The very important thing you should have is patience.
– Jack Ma
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The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience.
– Tokugawa Ieyasu
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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
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The patience of the American public with dilatory diplomatic delays will be very limited.
– Tom Lantos
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The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.
– John Major
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The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And yes, there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It's called being human.
– Elizabeth Edwards
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Thank God my parents had an abundance of patience.
– Lexa Doig
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Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.
– Damian Lewis
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Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.
– Peter Marshall
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Speaking from my experience as a person involved for a long time in building the European Union, it is important to have patience and efforts to build a community of nations.
– Giorgio Napolitano
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Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
– Abdus Salam
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Sometimes they are a matter of luck the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that he has seen and lost or for one that he anticipates.
– Bill Brandt
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So when I do Chinese cooking, I mix everything together, then the kids have to eat their vegetables. They won't have the patience to pick them out.
– Martin Yan
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So it's been a slow process and it's taken some patience. That's why patients are called patients I think - patience is required.
– Bowie Kuhn
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Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.
– Matthew Arnold
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Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience.
– Thomas Perry
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People ask me a lot about the values I got from playing for the Cubs for so many years. The value I got out of it was patience. A lot of people these days are not very patient.
– Ernie Banks
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Patience is the best medicine.
– John Florio
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Patience means restraining one's inclinations.
– Tokugawa Ieyasu
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Patience was not my strong point.
– Lauren Bacall
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Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.
– Gail Simmons
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Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
– Thomas Huxley
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Patience has never been my strong suit.
– Michael Chiklis
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Patience is passion tamed.
– Lyman Abbott
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