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Quotes About Patience

I am so tried by the things said about God. I understand God's patience with the wicked, but I do wonder how he can be so patient with the pious!
~ George MacDonald
You develop patience that enables you to wait gracefully and gratefully until the best arrives because you know it will.
~ Sarah Ban Breathnach
Geology gives us a key to the patience of God.
~ J. G. Holland
How should thy patience be crowned in heaven if none adversity should befall to thee in earth? If thou wilt suffer none adversity how mayest thou be the friend of Christ?
~ Thomas a Kempis
I've never known a runner who had as much patience as he needed.
~ Amby Burfoot
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
~ Cesare Pavese
All you need to be a fisherman is patience and a worm.
~ Herb Shriner
A high hope for a low heaven: God grant us patience!
~ William Shakespeare
If the soul would know the merit which one acquires in temptations suffered in patience and conquered, it would be tempted to say: "Lord, send me temptations."
~ Pio of Pietrelcina
To every obstacle oppose patience, perseverance and soothing language.
~ Thomas Jefferson
I learned a lot about humility and patience, keeping my mouth shut.
~ Madonna Ciccone
Patience and perserverance will accomplish more in this world than a brilliant dash. Remember that when something goes wrong.
~ Dale Carnegie
Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courage and patience.
~ Hyman Rickover
All things come to him who mates.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.
~ Philibert Joseph Roux
A classic is like a hidden treasure. Its core is buried under so many layers of varnish that it can be reached only by patience and infiltration.
~ Jean-Louis Barrault
It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you.
~ Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
Culturally, one of the best arguments we can make is, wait and see.
~ Os Guinness
Talent is a long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation.
~ Gustave Flaubert
It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.
~ Horace Bushnell
Without patience and the skill of a craftsman, even the greatest talent is wasted.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield,But to my own strength. Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved,But for the patience to win my freedom.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Talent is long patience.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Infinite Patience brings Immediate Results.
~ Wayne Dyer