PATIENCE

My patience had been tested by the boys. I have to reflect on the virtue of patience today.

Patience = The capacity of enduring hardship or inconvenience without complaint: forbearance, long-suffering, resignation, tolerance.

FAMOUS QUOTES ON PATIENCE:

"Patience is passion tamed." - Lyman Abbott

"Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures." - Joseph Addison

"Slow and steady wins the race." - Aesop

"Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return." - W. H. Auden

"Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul." - Francis Bacon

"Little by little, through patience and repeated effort, the mind will become stilled in the Self." - Bhagavad Gita

"Patience. A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue." - Ambrose Bierce

"Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience." - Paul Boese

"Inaction may be the biggest form of action." - Jerry Brown

"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." - Jean De La Bruyere

"Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; Hold fast; Hold out. Patience is genius." - Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon

"Patience is not active; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength." - Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

"Our patience will achieve more than our force." - Edmund Burke

"Patience will achieve more than force." - Edmund Burke

"It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience." - Horace Bushnell"

If I'm not back in five minutes... just wait longer!" - Jim Carrey

"Patience and shuffle the cards." - Miguel De Cervantes

"I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose." - Charlie Chaplin

"Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request." - Lord Chesterfield

"It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world." - William Cobbett

"Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength" - Charles Caleb Colton

Beware the fury of a patient man." - John Dryden

"Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits." - Thomas A. Edison

"I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill
a great number of holes where drilling is easy." - Albert Einstein

"Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen." - Epictetus

"The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing." - Epictetus

"A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once." - William Faulkner

"Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent." - B. C. Forbes

"Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them -- every day begin the task anew -" - St. Francis De Sales

"He that can have patience can have what he will." - Benjamin Franklin

"Patience means self-suffering." - Mahatma Gandhi

"The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open." - Arnold H. Glasgow

"The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do." - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"Patience is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not." - George Granville

"Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity." - Thomas Hardy
"If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big." - Hesiod

"Work and wait, work and wait is what God says to us in creation." - Josiah Gilbert Holland

"Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice." - George Holbrook Jackson

"Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears." - Barbara Johnson

"In all evils which admits a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes the time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might remove the cause." - Samuel Johnson

"Those who desire to become rich, desire it at once." - (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal

"All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue." - Franz Kafka

"Heaven grant us patience with a man in love." - Rudyard Kipling
"Patience and the passage of time do more than strength and fury." - Jean De La Fontaine

"The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach-waiting for a gift from the sea." - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"Every man must patiently bide his time. He must wait -- not in listless idleness but in constant, steady, cheerful endeavors, always willing and fulfilling and accomplishing his task, that when the occasion comes he may be equal to the occasion." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"All things come round to him who will but wait." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience." - Sri Anandamayi Ma

"To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success." - Joseph De Maistre

"Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here." - Philip Massinger
"Patience permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord when we are tossed about by suffering as if by surf. When the undertow grasps us we will realize that we are somehow being carried forward even as we tumble. We are actually being -helped even as we cry for help." - Neal A. Maxwell

"Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in one ahead." - Bill Mcglashen

"They also serve who only stand and wait." - John Milton

"Patience is the key to contentment." - Mohammed
"Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health." - Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

"Consider the hour-glass; there is nothing to be accomplished by rattling or shaking; you have to wait patiently until the sand, grain by grain, has run from one funnel into the other." - John Christian Morgenstern

"You will conquer by patience." - Motto

"If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent." - Sir Isaac Newton

"Patience makes a woman beautiful in middle age." - Elliot Paul"

Patience in the present, faith in the future, and joy in the doing" - George Perera

"Let me look upward into the branches of the flowering oak and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well." - Wilferd A. Peterson

"A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble." - Plaut

"In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience." - W. B. Prescott

"Rome was not built in a day." - Proverb

"Patience, money and time bring all things to past." - Proverb

"Patience when teased is often transformed into rage." - Proverb

"Patience is power; with time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown." - Chinese Proverb"

An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains." - Dutch Proverb

"Dios tarda pero no olvida -- God delays but doesn't forget." - Spanish Proverb"

Patience is the key to paradise." - Turkish Proverb

"Be patient. The path of self-discipline that leads to God-realization is not an easy path: obstacles and sufferings are on the path; the latter you must bear, and the former overcome -- all by His help. His help comes only through concentration. Repetition of God's name helps concentration." - Swami Ramdas

I needed patience to read these famous quotes on patience. I need patience to be patient with my self.

Yes, patience can capture goals and very well regarded by society.

Patience and self-control. Partners in peace.

All the best! Be patient with yourself and with others.

Roslyn

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