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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.

Patience and propriety. It was the only graceful thing to do.

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Patrick RothfussThe Slow Regard of Silent Things

But for half a minute she wished it was a different sort of day, even though she knew that nothing g...

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Patrick RothfussThe Slow Regard of Silent Things

It exhasperated her, but she knew better than to force the world to her desire.

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Patrick RothfussThe Slow Regard of Silent Things

She was not vain enough to work her will against the world. But she could use the things the world h...

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Patrick RothfussThe Slow Regard of Silent Things

Oh yes. It was well worth it, doing things the proper way.

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Patrick RothfussThe Slow Regard of Silent Things

She shelled the nuts and toasted them, jiggling them about in the pan. She sprinkled them with salt ...

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Patrick RothfussThe Slow Regard of Silent Things

There's no clear water from a muddy well. All you can do is let the silt settle until the water clea...

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Why is patience so important?""Because it makes us pay attention.

What made you fall in love with a prostitute?'I didn't understand it myself at the time. But I've th...

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So he could not be hasty or impatient. If he pushed forward impulsively, he would fail to see the si...

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The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the co...

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Above all, trust in the slow work of God.We are quite naturally impatient in everything to reach the...

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Speed will follow when the mechanism of the movements is more assured.

Have patience with everything unresolved in you heart and try to love the questions themselves. It i...

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Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Opennes...

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I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the question...

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Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themsel...

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so much is happening now; you must be patient like someone who is sick, and confident like someone w...

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And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far into the futu...

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Wait long enough and people will surprise and impress you.

God is never in a hurry, but he is always on time.

Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire. The reality of you...

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Robert M. PirsigZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

We need patient people who are able to endure the toughest disciplines.

If people who are in a difficulty will only do the first little reasonable thing which they can clea...

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If people who are in a difficulty will only do the first little reasonable thing which they can clea...

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If people who are in a difficulty will only do the first little reasonable thing which they can clea...

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If people who are in a difficulty will only do the first little reasonable thing which they can clea...

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If people who are in a difficulty will only do the first little reasonable thing which they can clea...

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If people who are in a difficulty will only do the first little reasonable thing which they can clea...

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If people who are in a difficulty will only do the first little reasonable thing which they can clea...

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If people who are in a difficulty will only do the first little reasonable thing which they can clea...

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Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

My dad said to me, 'Work hard and be patient.' It was the best advice he ever gave me. You have to p...

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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.

Patience, increasing patience,Is all we needTo be victoriousIn the battlefield of life.

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Sri ChinmoyThe Jewels of Happiness: Inspiration and Wisdom to Guide Your Life-Journey

In between your failure-treeAnd your triumph-tree,The tree that is growingIs known as your patience-...

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Sri ChinmoyThe Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace

If chess has any relationship to film-making, it would be in the way it helps you develop patience a...

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In a crisis, time was always the enemy.

The only way to prove his willingness to wait would be to wait.

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Stephen L. CarterThe Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln

I acquired a central ability that was to help me through my entire career: patience. I'm serious. Pa...

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Lark: "You shouldn't yell at

The panic disappeared under those soothing old fingers and the breathing slowed down and stopped hur...

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Tennessee WilliamsAmerican Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940's Until Now

Let nothing disturb you, nothing frighten you, all things are passing, God is unchanging. Patience g...

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The dogged determination and patience of one person to do what is Right and Necessary may not always...

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Just as the earth that bears the man who tills and digs it, to bear those who speak ill of them, is ...

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Patience that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

The years I have squandered in puerile excitement, in going hither and thither, in seeking to force ...

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Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine time patience

The same word passed through three minds, simultaneously, philosophical, fatalistic, the eternal ref...

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Well, we must wait for the future to show.

It would be easy to call it quits. Occasionally I have these moments, not often. There is nothing to...

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Although Jobs later said that he was not plotting to take over Apple at the time, Ellison thought it...

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One sticking point was that Jobs wanted his payout to be in cash. Amelio insisted that he needed to ...

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And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough.

Sitting full in the moment, I practiced on the god-awful difficulty of just paying attention. It's a...

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...The happy Warrior... is he... whose powers shed round him in the common strife, or mild concerns ...

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William WordsworthCharacter of the Happy Warrior

What we all need to do is find the wellspring that keeps us going, that gives us the strength and pa...

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By Allah, how _thankful_ he is (_yes, madam, one moment, madam_), how _gladdened_ by the thought tha...

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If a man, having lashed two hulls together, is crossing a river, and an empty boat happens along and...

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How Many Marriages Would Be Better If the Husband and the Wife Clearly Understood That They're On th...

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Zig ZiglarGreat Quotes from Zig Ziglar: 250 Inspiring Quotes from the Master Motivator and Friends

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.

I've got a very nice staff here. People with patience, you know, and good temper, and not too brainy...

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Agatha ChristieBy the Pricking of My Thumbs

You are the patient one, Mademoiselle,' said Poirot to Miss Debenham.She shrugged her shoulders slig...

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Agatha ChristieMurder on the Orient Express