Patience Quotes
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Though my short stories are the more readable, my novels do have more to say; and they will, if anyone has the patience for it, repay a rereading.
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Brisk talkers are usually slow thinkers. There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate. If you are civil to the voluble they will abuse your patience; if brusque, your character.
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A leaf that is destined to grow large is full of grooves and wrinkles at the start. Now if one has no patience and wants it smooth offhand like a willow leaf, there is trouble ahead.
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It is our right to stay here and we will stay and stand up for what belongs to us as American citizens, because they can't say that we haven't had patience.
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Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.
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Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.
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Enlightenment is just the beginning, later on come other skills . . . patience, a forgiving nature, extreme attention . . . .
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What comes into the world to disturb nothing merits neither attention nor patience
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Kindness and courage can repair time's faults, And serving him breeds patience and courtesy In us, light sojourners and passing subjects.
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Everything speeds up and it's blurry for a minute. But you've got to have a little patience sometimes to just find a soft spot. There's always a soft spot in the defense, and it's your job to find it.
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Patience is not a virtue!
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In the application of Satyagraha, I discovered, in the earliest stages, that pursuit of Truth did not admit of violence being inflicted on one's opponent, but that he must be weaned from error by patience and sympathy. For, what appears to be truth to the one may appear to be error to the other. And patience means self-suffering. So the doctrine came to mean vindication of Truth, not by infliction of suffering on the opponent but one's own self.
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A lack of patience in trifling matters might lead to the disruption of great project.
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O SON OF MAN! For everything there is a sign. The sign of love is fortitude under My decree and patience under My trials.
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Patience is the direct antithesis of anger.
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The most important benefit of patience consists in the way it acts as a powerful antidote to the affliction of anger.
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(Feedback) People become addicted to it. That’s why journalism is so popular, because you want to hear, every day, what people think of what you just wrote. I think a little patience on that front can be good, too.
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We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in us patience, humility, contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country.
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We need to strengthen such inner values as contentment, patience and tolerance, as well as compassion for others. Keeping in mind that it is expressions of affection rather than money and power that attract real friends, compassion is the key to ensuring our own well-being.
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Learn to see - accustoming the eye to calm, to patience, to letting-things-come-to-it; learning to defer judgment, to encircle and encompass the question on all sides.
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Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
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Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
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We cannot overcome anger and hatred simply by suppressing them. We need to actively cultivate the antidotes: patience and tolerance.
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Patience is key for getting over a breakup. That, and trailing off your interaction after the breakup.
