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Quotes About Patience

Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.
~ Virgil
You have suffered worse things; God will put an end to these also.
~ Virgil
Trust one who has tried.
~ Virgil
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit (Perhaps it will be pleasing sometime to have remembered these things, from The Aeneid)
~ Virgil
I guess walking slow getting married is because it gives you time to maybe change your mind.
~ Virginia Cary Hudson
If you want something to grow and be so beautiful you could have a nice day just from looking at it, you have to wait. Meanwhile you keep watering it and it has to have sunshine and also you talk to it.
~ Virginia Euwer Wolff
She isn't easy to have for a mom, she has too many opinions for one family, she can make me want to slam doors and stick out my tongue but I don't do it because of the long run.
~ Virginia Euwer Wolff
Trustin' done take a lifetime, Rose girl. Every time, it seems like you got to learn it again. But it gets to be some easier. You finally figure out that God does really love you. Then the trustin' get easier. God done already know how you feel. Let him take you through the hard times. He'll teach you to trust...
~ Unknown
Immanuel Birmelin, an ethologist at the Society of Animal Behavior Research in Germany, explained how patient he'd had to be in order to run a test to see if cats can count: "One of the cats would do the test once in the morning—only!" he recalled. "Another would do it once in the afternoon—only!" It had taken him four years to show that cats can count to four.
~ Unknown
I just wondered why God hasn't ever delivered chocolate ice cream to me.
~ Unknown
It is amazing what God will tell you, if you only take the time to listen.
~ Unknown
If you want something to grow and be so beautiful you could have a nice day just from looking at it, you have to wait.
~ Virginia Wolff
No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
~ Virginia Woolf
I think that men have no right to profess themselves architects hastily, without having climbed from boyhood the steps of these studies and thus, nursed by the knowledge of many arts and sciences, having reached the heights of the holy ground of architecture.
~ Vitruvius
Don't look back only forward! Infinite energy infinite enthusiasm infinite daring and infinite patience then alone can great deeds be accomplished
~ Vivekananda
Durante años me dije: "Por la mañana". Lo que, claro está, nunca ocurrió.
~ Vivian Gornick
Don't," she begged, knowing that surely she was trying his patience, that his kindness would stretch just so far, that if he were truly kind he could never have survived as a vampire.
~ Vivian Vande Velde
Felicity was more romantic. She's waiting for her lover. He's a sailor and she's watching for his ship to come in. Nobody's dared tell her it's been wrecked and her lover is at the bottom of the sea. She'll go on waiting and waiting until her red hair turns as white as his bones- Good.
~ Unknown
S láskou je to jako s pe?ínkou: ?ím starší jsou zuby, tím mladší musí být jehn?.
~ Unknown
Perfection is attained by slow degrees it requires the hand of time.
~ Voltaire
Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
~ Voltaire
Everyone should be his own physician. We ought to assist and not force nature. Eat with moderation what agrees with your constitution. Nothing is good for the body but what we can digest. What medicine can produce digestion? Exercise. What will recruit strength? Sleep. What will alleviate incurable ills? Patience.
~ Voltaire
This poem will never reach its destination.
~ Voltaire
Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.
~ Voltaire