PATIENCE

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(326 votes)  Slow and steady wins the race.

Aesop
620-560 BC, Greek Fabulist

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(317 votes)  Perfection is attained by slow degrees; she requires the hand of time.

Voltaire
1694-1778, French Historian, Writer

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(238 votes)  Patience is not active; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
1803-1873, British Novelist, Poet

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(228 votes)  Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

Thomas Hardy
1840-1928, British Novelist, Poet

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(222 votes)  With close-lipped Patience for our only friend, Sad Patience, too near neighbor to Despair.

Matthew Arnold
1822-1888, British Poet, Critic

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(217 votes)  Patience is passion tamed.

Lyman Abbott
1835-1922, American Congregational Clergyman and Editor

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(189 votes)  Patience is power; with time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.

Chinese Proverb
Sayings of Chinese Origin

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(161 votes)  Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.

W. H. Auden
1907-1973, Anglo-American Poet

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(161 votes)  Patience is the key to paradise.

Turkish Proverb
Sayings of Turkish Origin

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(159 votes)  Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

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(157 votes)  That which in mean men we entitle patience is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(154 votes)  They also serve who only stand and wait.

John Milton
1608-1674, British Poet

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(151 votes)  Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(146 votes)  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
1889-1977, British Comic Actor, Filmmaker

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(146 votes)  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 -

St. Francis De Sales
1567-1622, Roman Catholic Bishop, Writer

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(142 votes)  Dios tarda pero no olvida -- God delays but doesn't forget.

Spanish Proverb
Sayings of Spanish Origin

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(140 votes)  There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.

Jean De La BruyFre
1645-1696, French Classical Writer

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(137 votes)  All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.

Franz Kafka
1883-1924, German Novelist, Short-Story Writer

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(135 votes)  Little by little, through patience and repeated effort, the mind will become stilled in the Self.

Bhagavad Gita
c. BC 400-, Sanskrit Poem Incorporated Into the Mahabharata

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(132 votes)  Let me look upward into the branches of the flowering oak and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well.

Wilferd A. Peterson

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(129 votes)  He that can have patience can have what he will.

Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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(129 votes)  The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.

Arnold H. Glasgow

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(128 votes)  Patience and the passage of time do more than strength and fury.

Jean De La Fontaine
1621-1695, French Poet

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(127 votes)  Of all the things that tax a man's patience, there's nothing to compare with a stuck zipper.

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(126 votes)  The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach-waiting for a gift from the sea.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh
1906-, American Author

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(126 votes)  How poor are they that have not patience. What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(125 votes)  The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(120 votes)  The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

Epictetus
50-120, Stoic Philosopher

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(119 votes)  Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(117 votes)  Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Rudyard Kipling
1865-1936, British Author of Prose, Verse

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(114 votes)  All things come to him who waits -- provided he knows what he is waiting for.

Woodrow T. Wilson
1856-1924, Twenty-eighth President of the USA

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(113 votes)  You will conquer by patience.

Motto

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(113 votes)  A patient man is one who can put up with himself.

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(112 votes)  Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Epictetus
50-120, Stoic Philosopher

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(111 votes)  I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.

Margaret Thatcher
1925-, British Stateswoman, Prime Minister (1979-90)

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(111 votes)  Like farmers we need to learn that we cannot sow and reap the same day.

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(110 votes)  If you are tempted to lose patience with your fellowman; stop and think how patient God has been with you.

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(110 votes)  Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow -- that is patience.

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(109 votes)  If I'm not back in five minutes... just wait longer!

Jim Carrey
1962-, Canadian-born American Comedian, Actor

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(109 votes)  Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.

Saadi

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(108 votes)  A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.

William Faulkner
1897-1962, American Novelist

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(108 votes)  If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big.

Hesiod
8th century BC, Greek Poet

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(108 votes)  An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains.

Dutch Proverb
Sayings of Dutch Origin

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(108 votes)  There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

Joseph Roux
1834-1905, French Priest, Writer

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(107 votes)  Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.

Philip Massinger
1583-1640, British Dramatist

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(104 votes)  ''Work and wait'', ''work and wait'' is what God says to us in creation.

Josiah Gilbert Holland
1819-1881, American Author

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(103 votes)  Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

Joseph Addison
1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman

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(103 votes)  Patience is counting down without blasting off

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(101 votes)  Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

B. C. Forbes
1880-1954, American Publisher

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(100 votes)  Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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