Great Patience Quotes - Page 2

• Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.

  Phillips Brooks

  Patience, Short Life, Life Is Too Short

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• Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Leadership, Patience, Learning

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  Every great dream begins with a dreamer.

  Harriet Tubman

  Inspiring, Dream, Passion

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• Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

  Barbara Johnson

  Patience, Optimism, Gears

  Barbara Johnson (2008). “When Your Child Breaks Your Heart: Help for Hurting Moms”, p.134, Revell

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• If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent

  Isaac Newton

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• No greater 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

  Life, Patience, Time

  Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.48

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• Mahatma Gandhi I would say had perhaps a greater spiritual quality whereas Winston Churchill had besides the courage, ability and above everything else, the ability to put into words what his people felt so that he could always lead them. And my own husband I think had great patience, which you need in a democracy because you have to come to do fundamental things, you have to have the patience to have people educated; and then I think he had a deep interest in human beings as human beings.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Spiritual, Husband, Thinking

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• You must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Patience, Mind, Vex

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1938). “The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci”

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• All things come to him who mates.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Patience, Waiting, Mates

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• All things come to him who waits - even justice.

  Austin O'Malley

  Patience, Justice, Waiting

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• All things come to him who waits

  Woodrow Wilson

  Patience, Waiting, All Things

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• Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.

  Epictetus

  Inspirational, Patience, Greek Philosopher

  Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.48

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• Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness.

  Carl Jung

  Happiness, Sad, Happy

  "The Art of Living". Interview with Gordon Young in 1960. "C.G. Jung Speaking". Book edited by William McGuire and R.F.C. Hull, archive.org. 1977.

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• The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.

  Ralph Marston

  Faith, Patience, Acceptance

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• All things come to him who waits - provided he knows what he is waiting for.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Patience, Waiting, Be Patient

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• It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.

  Horace Bushnell

  Patience, Simple, Men

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 443), 1895.

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• Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Patience, Be Patient, Passive

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• Are great things ever done smoothly? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Time

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2054, Manonmani Publishers

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• I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Patience

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• Nonviolence requires great patience.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Nonviolence

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

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• [J]udges, therefore, should be always men of learning and experience in the laws, of exemplary morals, great patience, calmness, coolness, and attention. Their minds should not be distracted with jarring interests; they should not be dependent upon any man, or body of men.

  John Adams

  Character, Men, Law

  John Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.198

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• She might have liked to try to strangle him with those slender fingers of hers, but she wanted to make a job of it and this great patience with which she waited for her claws to grow was in itself a form of enjoyment.

  Emile Zola

  Jobs, Trying, Might

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• Great patience is called for on the hard path that I have entered on.

  Edgar Degas

  Patience, Path, Hard

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• Being the first born gives you great patience.

  Abraham Verghese

  Giving, Firsts, Born

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• For me, the essence of a medicine man's life is to be humble, to have great patience, to be close to the Earth, to live as simply as possible, and to never stop learning.

  Archie Fire Lame Deer

  Humble, Men, Essence

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