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Patience |
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Quotations
 | I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. — Lao-Tzu, 6th cent. BC, Chinese philosopher 10 likes |
 | Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher 8 likes |
 | You have to know how to endure injustices until you are in position to commit them yourself. — Alfred Capus, 1858-1922, French writer 7 likes |
 | If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 7 likes |
 | Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience. — Laurence J Peter, 1919-1990, Canadian writer & educator 6 likes |
 | The truth can wait, for she lives a long life. — Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German philosopher 6 likes |
 | Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. — Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865, American President 5 likes |
 | Impatience is a great obstacle to success; he who treats everything with brusqueness gathers nothing, or only immature fruit which will never ripen. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 4 likes |
 | He who can have patience can have what he will. — Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, American politician & writer 3 likes |
 | Patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue. — Ambrose Bierce, 1842–1914, American writer 3 likes |
 | Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius. — Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881, British Prime Minister 3 likes |
 | Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength — Charles Caleb Colton, 1780-1832, English cleric & writer 3 likes |
 | I can wait for you longer. Because you have arrived. — Antonio Porchia, 1885-1968, Italian-Argentinian poet 3 likes |
 | Patience is the art of hoping. — Vauvenargues, 1715-1747, French author of maxims 3 likes |
 | I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end. — Margaret Thatcher, 1925-2013, British Prime Minister 3 likes |
 | His sadness was of the kind that is patient and without hope. — William Maxwell, 1908-2000, American writer 3 likes |
 | All human wisdom is contained in these words: Wait and hope! — Alexandre Dumas, 1802-1870, French writer 3 likes |
 | You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak. — Antoin de Saint-Exupéry, 1900-1940, French writer 3 likes |
 | Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul. — Francis Bacon, 1561-1626, English philosopher 2 likes |
 | Endurance is patience concentrated. |
 | Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything. |
 | Have you seen a room from which faith has gone?... Like a marriage from which love has gone… And patience, patience everywhere like a fog. |
 | A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once. |
 | She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte. |
 | That is the way leaves fall around a tree in autumn, a tree unaware of the rain running down its sides, of the sun or the frost, and of life gradually retreating inward. The tree does not die. It waits. |
| Everyone can perform magic, everyone can reach his goals, if he is able to think, if he is able to wait, if he is able to fast. |
 | To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success. — Joseph De Maistre, 1753-1821, Savoyard diplomat & philosopher |
 | Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement. |
 | Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success. |
 | Job endured everything — until his friends came to comfort him, then he grew impatient. |
 | Patience, time and money accommodate all things. |
 | Hope is patience with the lamp lit. |
 | Etymologically, 'patient' means sufferer. — Susan Sontag, 1933-2004, American writer, critic, activist |
 | We usually learn to wait only when we have no longer anything to wait for. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1830-1916, German author of maxims |
Latin Quotes
 | Patience is the companion of wisdom. Patientia comes est sapientiae. — Saint Augustine, 354-430, Christian theologian & philosopher 76 likes |
 | To what length will you abuse our patience, Catiline? Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? — Cicero, 106-43 BC, Roman orator & statesman (in the first of his four Catiline Orations) 19 likes |
 | Better late than never. Potius sero quam numquam. |
Quotes in Verse
 | We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world. |
Funny Quotes
 | You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. |
Ancient Greek
 | Have patience and abstinence. Ανέχου και απέχου. — Epictetus, 50-120 AD, Ancient Greek Stoic philosopher 4 likes |
Proverbs
 | Rome wasn't built in a day. 3 likes |
 | Good things come to those who wait. 3 likes |
 | He who is not impatient is not in love. 2 likes |
