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Quotes About Patience

No emergency excuses you from exercising tolerance.
~ Phyllis Bottome
I believe the sign of maturity is accepting deferred gratification.
~ Peggy Cahn
You can't have genius without patience.
~ Margaret Deland
The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait.
~ Iris Murdoch
Self-denial is painful for a moment, but very agreeable in the end.
~ Jane Taylor
It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward of taking time to do anything well.
~ Joseph Ross
Patience and fortitude conquer all things.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
No great thing 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
Genius is eternal patience.
~ Michelangelo
Serene I fold my hands and wait.
~ John Burroughs
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
~ Thomas A. Edison
God will wait as long as it takes for us.
~ Reverend R. Walters
Waiting is not mere empty hoping. It has the inner certainty of reaching the goal.
~ I Ching
All things come to him who waits- provided he knows what he is waiting for.
~ Woodrow Wilson
God grant us patience!
~ William Shakespeare
Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
~ Bible
Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.
~ Plautus
For ye have need of patience....
~ Bible
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they see nothing but sea.
~ Francis Bacon
Do not disturb the sleeping dog.
~ Alessandro Allegri
The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
There is no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the end from the beginning.
~ E. J. Klemme
Gardening is an exercise in optimism.
~ Maria Schinz
Faith hasn't got no eyes, but she's long-legged.
~ Zora Neale Hurston