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Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.
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All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.
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No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.
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Whoever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
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Have patience with all things. But, first of all with yourself.
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Abused patience turns to fury.
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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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Jean de La Fontaine
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Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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He that can have patience can have what he will.
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Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Patience is the art of hoping.
Luc de Clapiers
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A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
Sir George Savile
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Edmund Burke
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Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
John Quincy Adams
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Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Endurance is patience concentrated.
Thomas Carlyle
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
Leo Tolstoy
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Patience is passion tamed.
Lyman Abbott
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Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
James John “Gentleman Jim” Corbett
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Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.
Frank McKinney Hubbard
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We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
Helen Adams Keller
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Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.
A.A. Milne
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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
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I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell
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Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
Hyman Rickover
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Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.
Peter Marshall
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The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.
Arnold H. Glasow
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You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
Franklin P. Jones
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You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
Sir William Gerald Golding
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Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
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With love and patience, nothing is impossible.
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Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it’s cowardice.
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Patience is not simply the ability to wait. It’s how we behave while we’re waiting.
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Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
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