Patience Quotes

Patience Quotes:
"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions." - Rainer Maria Rilke

"Every man must patiently bide his time. He must wait -- not in listless idleness but in constant, steady, cheerful endeavors, always willing and fulfilling and accomplishing his task, that when the occasion comes he may be equal to the occasion." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience." - Admiral Hyman Rickover

"It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting." - Elizabeth Taylor

"All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope."
- Alexandre Dumas Père

Patience Quotes:
"A patient man is one who can put up with himself." - Author Unknown

"There will be a time when loud-mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self destruct. It never fails." - Richard Rybolt

"Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it." - Eknath Easwaran

"Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished." - Confucius

"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

Patience Quotes:
"Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour." - Ovid

"Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content." - Helen Keller

"Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew." - Saint Francis de Sales

"All good things come to he who waits." - Proverb

"You can chase a butterfly all over the field and never catch it. But if you sit quietly in the grass it will come and sit on your shoulder.
- Anon

Patience Quotes:
"Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that is patience."
- Author Unknown

"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life." - Chinese Proverb

"How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees." - William Shakespeare

"You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance." - Franklin P. Jones

Patience Quotes:
"Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart." - Author Unknown

"Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success." - Brian Adams

"The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it." - Arnold H. Glasgow

"Our patience will achieve more than our force." - Edmund Burke

"Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request."
- Lord Chesterfield

Patience Quotes:
"Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience." - George-Louis de Buffon

"If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent." - Isaac Newton

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