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This is my wish for you:
Comfort on difficult days,
Smiles when sadness intrudes,
Rainbows to follow the clouds,
Laughter to kiss your lips,
Sunsets to warm your heart,
Hugs when spirits sag,
Beauty for your eyes to see,
Friendships to brighten your being,
Faith so that you can believe,
Confidence for when you doubt,
Courage to know yourself,
Patience to accept the truth,
Love to complete your life.
- Anonymous
Patience, persistence, and perseverance.
A little more each day, a little better each day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If patience is worth anything,
it must endure to the end of time.
And a living faith will last
in the midst of the blackest storm.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu
Stop! Breathe deeply.
Begin bringing peace to the outer world
by regaining your own inner peace.
Choose love, choose gratitude,
choose forgiveness, choose peace.
Begin with your own inner peace.
Then use that inner peace
as a platform from which
to approach the outer world
with perspective, understanding, and patience.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest power is often simple patience.
- E. Joseph Cossman
Keep moving. Don't stop. But don't rush.
Don't race around.
Sure and steady gets you there every time.
- Neale Donald Walsch
A jug fills drop by drop.
- The Buddha
No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus
Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
- Virgil
Spirit has unlimited patience,
and will wait for me to evolve.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are nine requisites for contented living:
HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure;
WEALTH enough to support your needs;
STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them;
GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them;
PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished;
CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor;
LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others;
FAITH enough to make real the things of God;
HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The key to everything is patience.
You get the chicken by hatching the egg,
not by smashing it open.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools,
but the gentle touches of air and water
working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
- Henry David Thoreau
The way lies in softness and patience,
as the softest water cuts through the hardest rock.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Haste is blind and improvident.
- Titus Livius (Livy)
I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
- Abraham Lincoln
Patience, persistence and perspiration
make an unbeatable combination for success.
- Napoleon Hill
Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
Always remember, you have within you the strength,
the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
- Harriet Tubman
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
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him,
and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
- Moliere
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
- Saint Augustine
It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss;
volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.
- George Santayana
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience.
Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
- Hal Borland
As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows,
cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.
- Cleveland Amory
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes,
packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners,
and instant cameras teach patience to its young?
- Paul Sweeney
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness,
and the word happy would lose its meaning
if it were not balanced by sadness.
It is far better take things as they come along
with patience and equanimity.
- Carl Jung
I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul,
to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience,
for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.
- David Hobson
Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
- John Ruskin
All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.
- Thomas Kempis
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
Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.
- Kin Hubbard
Patience is the art of hoping.
- Luc de Clapier
A final word: I am not knowledgeable about the internet.
I do not have a computer.
I guess that at 74 years of age, I don't have the patience to learn.
- David Wilkerson
A garden is a grand teacher.
It teaches patience and careful watchfulness;
it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.
- Gertrude Jekyll
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and
a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
- John Updike
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before
which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
- John Quincy Adams
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
We had great faith that with patience,
understanding, and education, that my family and I
could be helpful in changing their minds and attitudes around.
- Ryan White
Patience can't be acquired overnight.
It is just like building up a muscle.
Every day you need to work on it.
- Eknath Easwaran
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
Patience is the support of weakness;
impatience the ruin of strength.
- Charles Caleb Colton
Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you
feel like stripping your gears.
- Barbara Johnson
I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice,
and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance
achieve success for themselves.
- Major Taylor
Anyhow, a philosophical turn of thought now was not amiss,
else one's patience would have given out almost at the harbour entrance.
The term of her probation was eight days.
- Joshua Slocum
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
Genius is eternal patience.
- Michelangelo
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
The patience of the American public with dilatory diplomatic
delays will be very limited.
- Tom Lantos
If you would know strength and patience,
welcome the company of trees.
- Hal Borland
Patience has its limits.
Take it too far, and it's cowardice.
- George Jackson
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
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
Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself,
though even there he will have to put up with himself.
- Baltasar Gracian
God gives me the children's ministry heart and patience.
This is what He wants.
It's awesome.
I don't know where He's gonna take it-but God is building this thing.
- Willie Aames
Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.
- Sammy Davis, Jr.
There is no substitute for hard work,
23 or 24 hours a day.
And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance.
- Cesar Chavez
I have all the patience in the world about Sirens.
For me it's not a Grateful Dead project,
it's a Me project.
- Jerry Garcia
Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience,
hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could
be a pretty dull experience.
- Thomas Perry
Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.
- Philip Massinger
Writing is good, thinking is better.
Cleverness is good, patience is better.
- Herman Hesse
Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.
- Thomas Hardy
Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.
- Rudyard Kipling
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
Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
- Laurence J. Peter
That's why I never became a director.
I never had patience with people.
- Ray Harryhausen
Have patience.
All things are difficult before they become easy.
- Saadi
I believe there's too little patience and context to
many of the investigations I read or see on television.
- Bob Woodward
Endurance is patience concentrated.
- Thomas Carlyle
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