"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."
— Mahatma Gandhi
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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."
— Mahatma Gandhi
"The key to everything is patience. We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it."
— Abraham Lincoln
"God always has patience."
— Pope Francis
"Endurance is the crowning quality, and patience all the passion of great hearts."
— James Russell Lowell
"People make mistakes all the time. We learn and grow. If there's patience and love, and you care for people, you can work them through it, and they can find their greatest heights."
— Pete Carroll
"Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious."
— Phillips Brooks
"Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness."
— Thomas Huxley
"Patience is a nobler motion than any deed."
— C. A. Bartol
"Sometimes we may ask God for success, and He gives us physical and mental stamina. We might plead for prosperity, and we receive enlarged perspective and increased patience, or we petition for growth and are blessed with the gift of grace. He may bestow upon us conviction and confidence as we strive to achieve worthy goals."
— David A. Bednar
"Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of."
— William Shakespeare
"A moment of patience in a moment of anger saves you a hundred moments of regret."
— Anonymous
"The very important thing you should have is patience."
— Jack Ma
"Patience can't be acquired overnight. It's just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it."
— Eknath Easwaran
"Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance."
— Samuel Johnson
"He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding."
— William Shakespeare
"All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer."
— Thomas Fuller
"He that can have patience can have what he will."
— Benjamin Franklin
"Patience is not only a virtue, but an acquired trait."
— Christian Calhoun
"In your patience ye are strong."
— Lizabeth Barrett Browning
"Patience is the best remedy for every trouble."
— Plautus
"The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned."
— Fred Brooks
"How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?"
— William Shakespeare
"Today's patience can transform yesterday's discouragements into tomorrow's discoveries."
— William Arthur Ward
"The strongest of all warriors are these two-Time and Patience."
— Leo Tolstoy
"Our patience will achieve more than our force."
— Edmund Burke
"The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society."
— Lawrence G. Lovasik
"Genius is eternal patience."
— Michelangelo
"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
"Patience is the art of hoping."
— Marquis De Vauvenargues
"Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius."
— Benjamin Disraeli
"My dad said to me, 'Work hard and be patient.' It was the best advice he ever gave me. You have to put the hours in."
— Simon Cowell
"Patience is enduring love; experience is perfecting love; and hope is exulting love."
— Alexander Dickens
"All difficult, long-term achievements require grit, because if you are taking on challenges, setbacks are inevitable but with grit and patience you will succeed"
— Angela Duckworth
"Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on! hold fast! hold out! Patience is genius."
— Count De Buffon
"Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy."
— Saddi
"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."
— Lao Tzu
"Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains."
— William Penn
"There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honours too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience."
— La Bruyere, Les Caracteres
"Sometimes things aren't clear right away. That's where you need to be patient and persevere and see where things lead."
— Mary Pierce
"With love and patience, nothing is impossible."
— Daisaku Ikeda
"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
"Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit."
— Moliere
"Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience."
— George-Louis de Buffon
"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
"A person's wisdom yields patience; it is to one's glory to overlook an offense."
— Proverbs
"To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first."
— William Shakespeare
"Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character."
— Heraclitus
"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties appear and obstacles vanish."
— John Quincy Adams
"Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience."
— Hyman Rickover
"Patience is bitter. But its fruit is sweet."
— Aristotle
"Patience will benefit you in every hour, every time and every opportunity. It helps you to overcome your opponent, howsoever strong he may be. It will help you in times of distress and hardships, in battles and in war and peace."
— Abd al-Karim Qasim
"When people see a legend, they call it a legend. But to be a legend, it's a lot of hard work and patience. You can't play for five or ten years and be a legend. It takes longer than that."
— Burning Spear
"Patience, persistence, and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success."
— Napoleon Hill
"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
"All things come round to him who will but wait."
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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