Patience Quotes
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It is in length of patience, endurance and forbearance that so much of what is good in mankind and womankind is shown.
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Patience is not sitting and waiting, it is foreseeing. It is looking at the thorn and seeing the rose, looking at the night and seeing the day. Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full.
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Work and wait, work and wait is what God says to us in creation.
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Patience is God's nature.
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We have no alternative but to protest. For many years we have shown an amazing patience... But we come here tonight to be saved from that patience that makes us patient with anything less than freedom and justice.
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It is an easy thing to talk of patience to the afflicted.
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Patience is one of those feminine qualities which have their origin in our oppression but should be preserved after our liberation.
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The great saints were always great innovators... They had to be very strong people... principled people. And, apart from their principles, with great tenacity they had to have great reserves of patience.
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Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have really learned from life for ourselves.
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There is a patience that cackles. There are a great many virtues that are hen-like. They are virtue, to be sure; but everybody in the neighborhood has to know about them.
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This is me, a sinner on whom the Lord has turned his gaze. And this is what I said when they asked me if I would accept my election as pontiff. I am a sinner, but I trust in the infinite mercy and patience of our Lord Jesus Christ, and I accept in a spirit of penance.
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Lack of patience is probably the most common reason for losing a game, or drawing games that should have been won.
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I had patience with them for many ages: they tried me very sorely. They did terrible things: they embraced death, and said that eternal life was a fable. I stood amazed at the malice and destructiveness of the things I had made...
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Patience alleviates, as impatience augments, pain; thus persons of strong will suffer less than those who give way to irritation.
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As Martin noted, to the detectives conducting his interview, it was a good thing he'd been inebriated, because otherwise he would have wasted time screaming and running about - especially once he realized he was standing in a pool of blood. Instead, with the slow methodical patience of the drunk and terrified, Martin Turner dialed 999 and asked for the police.
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It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world.
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I've got to give my neighbors a bottle of wine or something because I was just screaming into microphones and learning how to play instruments, and it was a lesson in patience for them, I believe.
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Justice is not Healing. Healing cometh only by suffering and patience, and maketh no demand, not even for Justice. Justice worketh only within the bonds of things as they are... and therefore though Justice is itself good and desireth no further evil, it can but perpetuate the evil that was, and doth not prevent it from the bearing of fruit in sorrow.
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I am amazed at the patience of my blessed Master and Teacher, but how I love His school!
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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Patience lives in the gap between our experience of an event and our response to that experience.
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A noun is not a name you give something. It is something you watch becoming itself, and you have to have the patience to find out what it is.
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I look in the mirror through the eyes of the child that was me.
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Patience is the mother of joy.
