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“Patience and time do more than strength or passion.”
— Jean de La Fontaine
“He that can have patience can have what he will.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“Our patience will achieve more than our force.”
— Edmund Burke
“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.”
— Napoleon Hill
“A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.”
— John Updike
“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
“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
“We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.”
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.”
— Victor Hugo
“How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees? ”
— William Shakespeare
“No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing. ”
— William Shakespeare
“With love and patience, nothing is impossible.”
— Daisaku Ikeda
“I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there's a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve. ”
— George Washington Bush
“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
“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.”
— Rudyard Kipling
“Genius is eternal patience.”
— Michelangelo
“And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass, and it seems like all is lost - Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward... with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.”
— Michelle Obama
“I have not the smarts or patience for political office.”
— Henry Rollins
“I'd like to be more patient! I just want everything now. I've tried to meditate, but it's really hard for me to stay still. I'd like to try to force myself to do it, because everybody says how wonderful meditation is for you, but I can't shut my mind up. So patience and learning is the key.”
— Ellen DeGeneres
“Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.”
— Francis Bacon
“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
“It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.”
— Elizabeth Taylor
“Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.”
— Ambrose Bierce
“Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.”
— Ambrose Bierce
“Endurance is patience concentrated.”
— Thomas Carlyle
“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”
— Leo Tolstoy