Patience Quotes
With rispect to all those persons whose names are entered on this roll, I feel a peculiar pleasure in declaring, that the Ample support which they gave me under every difficulty; the manly firmness which they evinced on every necessary occasion; and the patience and fortitude with which they submited to, and bore, the fatigues and painful sufferings incident to my late tour to the Pacific Ocean, entitles them to my warmest approbation and thanks.
– Meriwether Lewis
To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
– John Ruskin
Whoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little constant and the rumours so little founded on truth.
– De la Vega
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– Chinese Proverb
Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.
– Leonardo da Vinci
– Dutch Proverb
– William Shakespeare
The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.
– Thucydides
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– Franklin P. Jones
When I said a few weeks ago that our people would eat cooking oil and olives if necessary, I didn't mean that there really would be only oil and olives. What I meant was that our people have the necessary patience to endure the current difficult situation. Palestinians would rather do without certain food items than their national rights.
– Ismail Haniyeh
We had great faith that with patience, understanding, and education, that my family and I could be helpful in changing their minds and attitudes around.
– Ryan White
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There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.
– Abu Bakr
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– Titus Maccius Plautus
– George Santayana
I'd like to be more patient! I just want everything now. I've tried to meditate, but it's really hard for me to stay still. I'd like to try to force myself to do it, because everybody says how wonderful meditation is for you, but I can't shut my mind up. So patience and learning is the key.
– Ellen DeGeneres
I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul.
– Dick Dale
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Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.
– May Sarton
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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
– Carl Jung
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– James Russell Lowell
And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass, and it seems like all is lost - Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward... with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.
– Michelle Obama
– Thomas a Kempis
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
– Moliere
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