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Quotes About Patience

We must truly serve those whom we appear to command; we must bear with their imperfections, correct them with gentleness and patience, and lead them in the way to heaven.
~ Francois Fenelon
Though a good cop, Luc Claudel has the patience of a firecracker, the sensitivity of Vlad the Impaler, and a persistent skepticism as to the value of forensic anthropology. Snappy dresser, though.
~ Kathy Reichs
The patience of poverty. In rice fields, backs bent forever. Amazing, man outoxens the oxen and still smiles. The mystery of India, say Indologists.
~ Gunter Grass
Patience is a noble virtue, and, when rightly exercised, does not fail of its reward.
~ George Washington
Traditionally the investor has been the man with patience and the courage of his convictions who would buy when the harried or disheartened speculator was selling.
~ Benjamin Graham
Wait long enough and people will surprise and impress you.
~ Randy Pausch
Patience is sorrow's salve.
~ Winston Churchill
Enlightenment is just the beginning, later on come other skills . . . patience, a forgiving nature, extreme attention . . . .
~ E. J. Gold
I love what I know about passion, I love what I know about mercy, I love what I know about patience, I love what I know about soul, and I know you.
~ Jason Molina
I know what's within me even if you can't see it yet...I have something more important than courage, I have patience. I will become what I know I am.
~ Michael Jordan
The wicked exist in this world either to be converted or that through them the good may exercise patience.
~ Saint Augustine
The mind of a wise man is the safest custody of secrets; cheerfulness is the key to friendship; patience and forbearance will conceal many defects.
~ Bill Vaughan
Your passion must be tempered with patience. Maybe long-suffering patience would be a better word.
~ Jack White
Patience cannot remove, but it can always dignify and alleviate, misfortune.
~ Laurence Sterne
Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
~ Tertullian
Take your patience pill ...You can be joyous, but you can't be a jackass.
~ Michael Nutter
Patience is moral elasticity.
~ Austin O'Malley
You cannot put patience and experience into a parenthesis, and, omitting them, bring hope out of tribulation.
~ Alexander MacLaren
We cannot overcome anger and hatred simply by suppressing them. We need to actively cultivate the antidotes: patience and tolerance.
~ Dalai Lama
In your patience ye are strong.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in us patience, humility, contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country.
~ C. S. Lewis
Our problem is that we often expect instantaneous solutions to such challenges, forgetting that frequently the heavenly virtue of patience is required.
~ Thomas S. Monson
Paper has more patience than people.
~ Anne Frank
I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke