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Some people can never understand that you have to wait, even for the best of things, until the right time comes.
The practice of patience in crafting and process is a virtue that needs to come back.
Think of the patience God has had for you and let it resonate to others. If you want a more patient world, let patience be your motto.
Knowing trees, I came to realize, understand and appreciate the act of patience.
Two things define you: your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.
Haste is productive of injury, and so is too much hesitation. He is the wisest man who does everything at the proper time.
The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.
The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in adversity.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice -- no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
Patience is a conquering virtue.
Longer Version:
Patience is a conquering virtue. The learned say that, if it not desert you, It vanquishes what force can never reach; Why answer back at every angry speech? No, learn forbearance or, I'll tell you what, You will be taught it, whether you will or not.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Longer Version:
No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.
Change is slow and gradual. It requires hard work, a bit of luck, a fair amount of self-sacrifice, and a lot of patience.
One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life.
Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.
Talent is a long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation.
Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.
There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.
The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.
Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.
Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.
Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.
There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them.
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.
It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.
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.
Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.
