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People in a hurry cannot think cannot grow nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of pe...

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I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and als...

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The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.

And St. Francis said: 'My dear son, be patient, because the weaknesses of the body are given to us i...

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Francis of AssisiThe Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi

Use the first moments in study. You may miss many an opportunity for quick victory in this way, but ...

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The Atreides are known to start late getting there growth.

You have a nicety of awareness of the difference between a blade's edge and its tip.

Some people can never understand that you have to wait, even for the best of things, until the right...

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All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fenci...

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Let the water flow beneath the bridge; let men be men, that is to say, weak, vain, inconstant, unjus...

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In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair-mindedness, and gentleness w...

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Physician, heal thyself: then wilt thou also heal thy patient. Let it be his best cure to see with h...

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Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is timing. It wait on the right t...

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Patience is power. Patience is not an absenc of action; rather it is timing, it waits on the right t...

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Patience is power.Patience is not an absence of action;rather it is "timing"it waits on the right ti...

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A pretty building I'm making, without either bricks or timber. I'm up i' the garret a'ready, and hav...

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A woman may get to love by degrees—the best fire does not flare up the soonest.

It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.

There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room, and to ha...

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Patience strengthens the spirit, sweetens the temper, stifles anger, extinguishes envy, subdues prid...

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Patience has its limits. Take it too far and it's cowardice.

punishment had not been spared--with best results in patience and purification

The first rule of discovery is to have brains and good luck. The second rule of discovery is to sit ...

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George PólyaHow to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method

Ten years from now, no one is going to care how quickly the books came out. The only thing that will...

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No one has ever died of restlessness, but rashness is another matter. We've planted seeds, let them ...

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A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness it teaches industry and th...

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Talent is a long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation.

I have patience in all things – as far as the antechamber.

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Gustave FlaubertFlaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.

Tengo had a gift for such work. He was a born technician, possessing both the intense concentration ...

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I have a lot more patience for others than I have for myself, and I am much better at bringing out t...

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This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don't get impatient. Even if things are so tangled ...

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For many years, I tried to make New Year's resolutions. I made lists and shot for great heights: I w...

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Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands...

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Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protr...

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It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that act...

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Why?' says the boy.'Why? Because staying alive is more important than anything else.''Why is staying...

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Patience is important for a man, vital for a leader

She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to...

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Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.

Patience and passage of time do more than strength and fury.

Rowl reminded himself that cats were eternally patient, and that he would not simply explode if he d...

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Jim ButcherThe Aeronaut's Windlass

We best learn patience by practicing it.

Must I at length the Sword of Justice draw?Oh curst Effects of necessary Law!How ill my Fear they by...

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John DrydenAbsalom and Achitophel

I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and hone...

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Impatience is a form of unbelief. It's what we begin to feel when we start to doubt the wisdom of Go...

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It was a costly triumph. But God’s values are not so easily reckoned. If God had simply terminated S...

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Impatience is a form of unbelief. It's what we begin to feel when we start to doubt the wisdom of Go...

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It was a costly triumph. But God’s values are not so easily reckoned. If God had simply terminated S...

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Impatience is a form of unbelief. It's what we begin to feel when we start to doubt the wisdom of Go...

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It was a costly triumph. But God’s values are not so easily reckoned. If God had simply terminated S...

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Impatience is a form of unbelief. It's what we begin to feel when we start to doubt the wisdom of Go...

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It was a costly triumph. But God’s values are not so easily reckoned. If God had simply terminated S...

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Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

Simply put, she was the one who had to put up with me. That she did so with love and patience and en...

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Happiness, honor, and great estate,For those who patiently work and wait.

I worry that business leaders are more interested in material gain than they are in having the patie...

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We spend our lives waiting for our book and it never comes.

In all controversies, it is better to wait the decisions of time, which are slow and sure, than to t...

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Time and time again one has seen, even in people not particularly given to reflection, that the best...

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José SaramagoThe Gospel According to Jesus Christ

I love to close my eyes a moment and think of the land outside, white under the mingled snow and moo...

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Simplicity, patience, compassion.These three are your greatest treasures.Simple in actions and thoug...

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Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Have the patience to wait! Be still and ...

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Patience is a virtue, but there comes a moment when you must stop being patient and take the day by ...

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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is ha...

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The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.

everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait . . . there is nothing stronger than these two...

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Leo TolstoyWar and Peace

No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.

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Lewis CarrollAlice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

You're enough to try the patience of an oyster!

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Lewis CarrollAlice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.

Be worthy love, and love will come.

Good travels at a snail's pace. Those who want to do good are not selfish, they are not in a hurry, ...

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Mahatma GandhiThe Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them.

Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Wat...

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I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

Have patience with the quarrelsomeness of the stupid. It is not easy to comprehend that one does not...

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I could have married again while I was still young. A congregation likes to have a married minister,...

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Those speak foolishly who ascribe their anger or their impatience to such as offend them or to tribu...

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I will simply express my strong belief, that that point of self-education which consists in teaching...

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Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and...

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Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

We applaud patience, but prefer it to be a virtue that others possess.

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N.T. WrightAfter You Believe: Why Christian Character Matters

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.

A patient willingness to defer dividends is a hallmark of individual maturity.

There is also a dimension of patience which links it to a special reverence for life. Patience is a ...

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Perfect love is perfectly patient.

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Neal A. MaxwellAll These Things Shall Give Thee Experience

Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.

Watch out, brother,' his professor had told him more than once, 'you have talent; it would be a sin ...

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Man hurries, God does not. That is why man's works are uncertain and maimed, while God's are flawles...

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A novelist is essentially a person who covers distance through his patience, slowly, like an ant. A ...

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Miro, I'm so sorry. I always felt such pity for you humans because you could only think of one thing...

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It was the waiting and watching that cost the most. For during that time he had to endure.

In our lives we know joy, anger, sorrow, and a hundred other emotions, but these emotions altogether...

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You cannot have a moral holiday and remain moral, nor can you have a spiritual holiday and remain sp...

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Oswald ChambersMy Utmost for His Highest

Sólo con una ardiente paciencia conquistaremos la espléndida ciudad que dará luz, justicia y dignida...

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Pablo NerudaToward the Splendid City: Nobel Lecture

But I am a patient man. I can wait for hours in the rain.