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Wise Quotes About Patience

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Quote: 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. by author Ralph Marston overlaid on photo of purple flower on purple textile
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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.


Quote: I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. by author Laozi (Lao-Tzu) overlaid on photo of pink and blue painted wall
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I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.


Quote: The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. by author Bertrand Russell overlaid on photo of sunset
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The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.


Quote: Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience. by author Benjamin Franklin overlaid on photo of person wearing TV helmet with remote
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Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience.


Quote: Perfect love is perfectly patient. by author Neal A. Maxwell overlaid on photo of white and purple flower in macro shot
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Perfect love is perfectly patient.


Quote: Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day. by author A. A. Milne overlaid on photo of yellow and white balloons on orange surface
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Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.


Quote: 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. by author Paulo Coelho overlaid on photo of brown wooden heart shaped wall decor
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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.


Quote: To lose patience is to lose the battle. by author Mahatma Gandhi overlaid on photo of flowers
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To lose patience is to lose the battle.


Quote: No great thing is created suddenly. by author Epictetus overlaid on photo of sunset
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No great thing is created suddenly.

Longer Version/[Notes]:

No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.


Quote: Change is slow and gradual. It requires hard work, a bit of luck, a fair amount of self-sacrifice, and a lot of patience. by author Robert Greene overlaid on photo of black and white bird on seashore
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Change is slow and gradual. It requires hard work, a bit of luck, a fair amount of self-sacrifice, and a lot of patience.


Quote: Endurance is patience concentrated. by author Thomas Carlyle overlaid on photo of bonfire on focus photography
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Endurance is patience concentrated.


Quote: Hope is patience with the lamp lit. by author Tertullian overlaid on photo of low angle photography of green and brown tree
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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.


Quote: There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient. by author Sivananda Saraswati overlaid on photo of short-beak red bird on tree
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There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.


Quote: Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience. by author Ralph Waldo Emerson overlaid on photo of green leaf tree near mountain covered by snow at daytime
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Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.


Quote: Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. by author Publilius Syrus overlaid on photo of person holding pencil near laptop computer
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Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.


Quote: Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious. by author Phillips Brooks overlaid on photo of green and white abstract painting
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Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.


Quote: Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request. by author Lord Chesterfield overlaid on photo of heart-shaped red and beige pendant
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Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.


Quote: I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. by author Michaelangelo overlaid on photo of shallow focus photography of hand with red paint
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I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.


Quote: Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. by author Jean-Jacques Rousseau overlaid on photo of woman holding Pug puppy
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Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.


Quote: Patience and time do more than strength or passion. by author Jean de La Fontaine overlaid on photo of green leaf tree near mountain covered by snow at daytime
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Patience and time do more than strength or passion.


Quote: 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. by author Jean de la Bruyere overlaid on photo of person holding sunflower
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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.


Quote: The very important thing you should have is patience. by author Jack Ma overlaid on photo of pink flowers with white background
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The very important thing you should have is patience.


Quote: The principle part of faith is patience. by author George MacDonald overlaid on photo of green leafed tree with sunlight at daytime
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The principle part of faith is patience.


Quote: Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience. by author Evelyn Underhill overlaid on photo of brown and black leaf in close up photography
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Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.


Quote: The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others. by author Erik Erikson overlaid on photo of forest trees photograph
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The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.


Quote: With love and patience, nothing is impossible. by author Daisaku Ikeda overlaid on photo of pink dahlia in bloom
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With love and patience, nothing is impossible.


Quote: At the gate of patience there is no crowding. by author Moroccan saying overlaid on photo of person cooking on seashore
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At the gate of patience there is no crowding.


Quote: Patience is the key to contentment. by author The Prophet Muhammad overlaid on photo of red rope on three branch
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Patience is the key to contentment.


Quote: Patience you must have, my young padawan. by author Yoda (Star Wars) overlaid on photo of man and woman with dog on woods
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Patience you must have, my young padawan.


Quote: Find patience in the breath of life. by author Ryunosuke Satoro overlaid on photo of flowers
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Find patience in the breath of life.


Be patient with your impatience.


Quote: Patience is serenity in the face of insanity. by author Anne Wilson Schaef overlaid on photo of close-up photo of pink flower
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Patience is serenity in the face of insanity.


Quote: Patience is also a form of action. by author Auguste Rodin overlaid on photo of five silhouette of birds flying on sky
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Patience is also a form of action.


Quote: Patience is the greatest of all virtues. by author Cato the Elder overlaid on photo of toddler hugging siberian husky
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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.


Quote: Patience is stronger than force. by author Edward Counsel overlaid on photo of closeup photo of green leafed plant
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Patience is stronger than force.


Quote: The hands of patience never tire. by author Edward Counsel overlaid on photo of silhouette of three men falling in line while walking during golden hour
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The hands of patience never tire.


Quote: Patience is the art of concealing your impatience. by author Guy Kawasaki overlaid on photo of brown and black tiger near body of water
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Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.


Quote: Beware the fury of a patient man. by author John Dryden overlaid on photo of low-angle photography of green leaf tree
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Beware the fury of a patient man.


Quote: Drive gently over the stones. by author Jonathan Swift overlaid on photo of green leafed tree with sunlight at daytime
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Drive gently over the stones.


Quote: He who says patience, says courage, endurance, strength. by author Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach overlaid on photo of sunset forest
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He who says patience, says courage, endurance, strength.


Quote: Patience and shuffle the cards. by author Miguel de Cervantes overlaid on photo of toddler hugging siberian husky
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Patience and shuffle the cards.


Quote: Patience is the best remedy for every trouble. by author Plautus overlaid on photo of autumn leaves on body of water
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Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.


Quote: Patience in all things is your crucial shield. by author Robert Greene overlaid on photo of sunset with agave stem
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Patience in all things is your crucial shield.


Quote: Patience is God's nature. by author Tertullian overlaid on photo of green trees on forest during daytime
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Patience is God's nature.


Quote: Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement. by author Vera Nazarian overlaid on photo of brown trees under blue sky during daytime
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Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement.


Quote: Nature never rushes, yet everything gets done. by author Donald L. Hicks overlaid on photo of red rope on three branch
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Nature never rushes, yet everything gets done.


Quote: Patience wins the race. by author Bernard Barton overlaid on photo of green trees on forest during daytime
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Patience wins the race.


Quote: Patience is sorrow's salve. by author Charles Churchill overlaid on photo of man and woman with dog on woods
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Patience is sorrow's salve.


Quote: Even a snail will eventually reach its destination. by author Gail Tsukiyama overlaid on photo of three people paddling in canoe
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Even a snail will eventually reach its destination.


Quote: Patience is passion tamed. by author Lyman Abbott overlaid on photo of green trees on forest during daytime
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Patience is passion tamed.


Quote: Nature, time and patience are three great physicians. by author Henry George Bohn overlaid on photo of shade under a green-leafed tree
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Nature, time and patience are three great physicians.


Quote: Patience pays off. by author Mayte Garcia overlaid on photo of Arizona landscape
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Patience pays off.


Quote: All in good time. by author Horace overlaid on photo of person holding yellow round analog clock
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All in good time.


Quote: Infinite Patience brings Immediate Results. by author Wayne W. Dyer overlaid on photo of pink flowers with white background
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Infinite Patience brings Immediate Results.


Quote: Talent is long patience. by author Gustave Flaubert overlaid on photo of Arizona landscape
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Talent is long patience.


Quote: Above all, trust in the slow work of God. by author Pierre Teilhard de Chardin overlaid on photo of bird at pier
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Above all, trust in the slow work of God.


Quote: Some people can never understand that you have to wait, even for the best of things, until the right time comes. by author Franklin D. Roosevelt overlaid on photo of green and white bird on black wire during daytime
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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.




Quote: Slow and Steady wins the race. by author Aesop overlaid on photo of flowers
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Slow and Steady wins the race.


Quote: The practice of patience in crafting and process is a virtue that needs to come back. by author Zac Posen overlaid on photo of green trees under white sky during daytime
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The practice of patience in crafting and process is a virtue that needs to come back.


Quote: 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. by author Steve Maraboli overlaid on photo of coconut tree near body of water
Photo Credit: Pedro Monteiro

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.


Quote: So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting. by author Sinclair Lewis overlaid on photo of person cooking on seashore
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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.


Quote: Knowing trees, I came to realize, understand and appreciate the act of patience. by author Ogwo David Emenike overlaid on photo of woman standing on forest
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Knowing trees, I came to realize, understand and appreciate the act of patience.


Quote: Two things define you: your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything. by author George Bernard Shaw overlaid on photo of person standing on rock beside body of water between green trees
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Two things define you: your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.


Quote: Haste is productive of injury, and so is too much hesitation. He is the wisest man who does everything at the proper time. by author Ovid overlaid on photo of green trees under white sky during daytime
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Haste is productive of injury, and so is too much hesitation. He is the wisest man who does everything at the proper time.


Quote: What may not be altered is made lighter by patience. by author Horace overlaid on photo of close-up photo of pink flower
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What may not be altered is made lighter by patience.


Quote: The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in adversity. by author Seneca the Younger overlaid on photo of coconut tree near body of water
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The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in adversity.


Quote: The continuous drip polishes the stone. by author Peruvian saying overlaid on photo of Arizona landscape
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The continuous drip polishes the stone.


Quote: Grain by grain a loaf, stone by stone, a castle. by author Yugoslavian Saying overlaid on photo of grayscale photo of elephant on grass field
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Grain by grain a loaf, stone by stone, a castle.


Quote: 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. by author John Burroughs overlaid on photo of white petaled flowers beside gray wall
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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.


Time discovers truth.


Quote: Patience is a conquering virtue. by author Geoffrey Chaucer overlaid on photo of sunset
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Patience is a conquering virtue.

Longer Version/[Notes]:

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.


Quote: Bear and forbear. by author Unknown Author overlaid on photo of 2 women standing on brown field during daytime
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Bear and forbear.


Quote: Genius is patience. by author Isaac Newton overlaid on photo of sunset
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Genius is patience.


Quote: Haste makes waste. by author John Heywood overlaid on photo of macro photography of green bird on tree branch
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Haste makes waste.


Quote: One minute of patience, ten years of peace. by author Greek proverb overlaid on photo of green leafed tree with sunlight at daytime
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One minute of patience, ten years of peace.


Quote: Haste has no blessing. by author Swahili saying overlaid on photo of flowers
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Haste has no blessing.


Quote: Everything comes if a man will only wait. by author Benjamin Disraeli overlaid on photo of snow-covered mountain near lake under blue sky
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Everything comes if a man will only wait.




Quote: One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life. by author Chinese Proverb overlaid on photo of Arizona landscape
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One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life.


Quote: Patience and fortitude conquer all things. by author Ralph Waldo Emerson overlaid on photo of four wooden boat on teal sea
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Patience and fortitude conquer all things.


Quote: Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything. by author Rainer Maria Rilke overlaid on photo of green leafed plants on forest
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Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.


Quote: Talent is a long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation. by author Gustave Flaubert overlaid on photo of silhouette of man standing on rock while looking in sky
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Talent is a long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation.


Quote: Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance. by author Publius Vergilius Maro overlaid on photo of photo of author Publius Vergilius Maro with quote

Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.


Quote: Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness. by author Thomas Huxley overlaid on photo of grassland landscape
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Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.


Quote: 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. by author Thomas Aquinas overlaid on photo of pink and white flower in close up photography
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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.


Quote: The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones. by author Solomon ibn Gabirol overlaid on photo of forest near mountain alps
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The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.


Quote: Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. by author Soren Kierkegaard overlaid on photo of brown rocky mountain under blue sky during daytime
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Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.


Quote: Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown. by author Soren Kierkegaard overlaid on photo of water droplets on green leaf
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Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.


Quote: Bear patiently with a rival. by author Ovid overlaid on photo of green trees on forest during daytime
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Bear patiently with a rival.


Quote: Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work. by author Peter Marshall overlaid on photo of gray elephant
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Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.


Quote: There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them. by author Larry Hagman overlaid on photo of silhouette photo of aurora borealis
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There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them.


Quote: Patience is the art of hoping. by author Luc de Clapiers overlaid on photo of green trees beside lake during daytime
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Patience is the art of hoping.


Quote: Patience is the best medicine. by author John Florio overlaid on photo of grassland
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Patience is the best medicine.


Quote: 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. by author John Major overlaid on photo of foggy mountains
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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.


Quote: It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience. by author Julius Caesar overlaid on photo of closeup photo of bird beside purple petal flowers
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It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.


Quote: Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts. by author James Russell Lowell overlaid on photo of brown butterfly perched on flower
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Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.


Quote: If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought. by author Isaac Newton overlaid on photo of white pampas grasses near body of water at daytime
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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.


Quote: To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship. by author Henri J. M. Nouwen overlaid on photo of woman holding brown umbrella
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To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship.




Quote: Our patience will achieve more than our force. by author Edmund Burke overlaid on photo of bare tree on mountain during sunset
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.


Quote: I think patience is a skill and I wish I had it. by author David Duchovny overlaid on photo of yellow flower
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I think patience is a skill and I wish I had it.


Quote: There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance. by author Cesar Chavez overlaid on photo of short-beak red bird on tree
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There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance.


Quote: The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it. by author Arnold H. Glasow overlaid on photo of closeup photo of bird beside purple petal flowers
Photo Credit: Ray Hennessy

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.


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