Great Patience Quotes

• I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Patience, Perseverance, Powerful

  In Observer 4 Apr. 1989

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• He that can have patience can have what he will.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Sports, Patience, Determination

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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• Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Patience, Hurt

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1957). “Notebooks”

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• Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Inspirational, Patience, Patient Person

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  It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Inspirational, Patience, Time

  Elizabeth Taylor (1968). “A wreath of roses”

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• The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Life, Motivational, Patience

  Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1961). “War and peace”

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• 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

  Happiness, Patience, Pain

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• Patience and fortitude conquer all things.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Patience, Be Patient

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• The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Patience, Time, Warrior

  Leo Tolstoy (2012). “War and Peace”, p.851, Modern Library

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• No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time.

  Warren Buffett

  Smart, Investing Money, Effort

  Lawrence A. Cunningham, Warren E. Buffett (2013). “The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America (Third Edition)”, p.71, Carolina Academic Press

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• Patience patience quotes is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Patience, Sweet, Fruit

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• Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.

  Saadi

  Sports, Patience, Difficult And Easy

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• Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

  Plautus

  Patience, Wisdom, Be Patient

  "The Rope". Play by Plautus, 211 BC.

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• The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

  Moliere

  Inspirational, Success, Patience

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• We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Patience, Wisdom

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.111, Om Books International

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• Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

  Carl Jung

  Love, Happiness, Sad

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• With love and patience, nothing is impossible.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Love, Patience, Not Giving Up

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• Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

  Victor Hugo

  Inspirational, Life, God

  Victor Hugo (1898). “From exile, and after the fall of the Empire”

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  Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Eark Nightingale, Claude M. Bristol, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS02”, p.6, Lulu.com

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• Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Patience

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1883). “Emerson's complete works [ed. by J.E. Cabot]. Riverside ed”

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• Our patience will achieve more than our force.

  Edmund Burke

  Inspirational, Patience, Virtue

  'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790) p. 249

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• To lose patience is to lose the battle.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Patience, Optimism

  Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore (1968). “Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India”

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• If you seek patience, you will find no better example than the cross. Great patience occurs in two ways: either when one patiently suffers much, or when one suffers things which one is able to avoid and yet does not avoid. Christ endured much on the cross, and did so patiently, because when he suffered he did not threaten; he was led like a sheep to the slaughter and he did not open his mouth.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Sheep, Two, Suffering

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• Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Strength, Patience, Support

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• Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that is patience. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspiring, Moving On, Patience

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