Patience Virtue Quotes - Page 2

• Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.

  Philip Massinger

  Patience, Virtue, Harbors

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• Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Sarcastic, Patience, Virtue

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• Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.

  David Mallet

  Patience, Gratitude, Sweet

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• We often wonder why God gives and takes, constricts and expands. What we forget is that human beings understand things by their opposites. Without dark, we can’t understand light. Without hardship, we wouldn’t *experience* ease. Without the existence of deprivation and loss, we couldn’t grasp the need for gratitude or the virtue of patience. And without separation, we wouldn’t taste the sweetness of reunion. Glory be to the one who gives—even when He takes.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Gratitude, Loss, Dark

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• Fishing provides time to think, and reason not to. If you have the virtue of patience, an hour or two of casting alone is plenty of time to review all you’ve learned about the grand themes of life.

  Carl Safina

  Thinking, Fishing, Two

  Carl Safina (2011). “The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World”, p.130, Macmillan

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• Twelve Priceless Qualities of Success: 1. The value of time. 2. The success of perseverance. 3. The pleasure of working. 4. The dignity of simplicity. 5. The worth of character. 6. The power of kindness. 7. The influence of example. 8. The obligation of duty. 9. The wisdom of economy. 10. The virtue of patience. 11. The improvement of talent. 12. The joy of originating.

  Marshall Field

  Wisdom, Perseverance, Kindness

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• 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

  Challenges, Problem, Forget

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• Hope is practiced through the virtue of patience, which continues to do good even in the face of apparent failure, and through the virtue of humility, which accepts God's mystery and trusts him even at times of darkness.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Humility, Darkness, Faces

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