Patience Quotes - Page 11

• The professional arms himself with patience, not only to give the stars time to align in his career, but to keep himself from flaming out in each individual work.

  Steven Pressfield

  Stars, Careers, Giving

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• Had it pleas'd heaven
  To try me with affliction * * *
  I should have found in some place of my soul
  A drop of patience.

  William Shakespeare

  Should Have, Heaven, Soul

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• We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Vanity, People, Offensive

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• I worked with patience which means almost power.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Mean

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.976, Delphi Classics

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• And I must bear
  What is ordained with patience, being aware
  Necessity doth front the universe
  With an invincible gesture.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Gestures, Bears, Invincible

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.213, Delphi Classics

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• A classic is like a hidden treasure. Its core is buried under so many layers of varnish that it can be reached only by patience and infiltration.

  Jean-Louis Barrault

  Treasure, Layers, Classic

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• For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill.

  Samuel Johnson

  Reign, Ill

  Tobias George Smollett, Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith (1810). “The Poetical Works of Doctors Smollett, Johnson, and Goldsmith”

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• The worst speak something good; if all want sense,
  God takes a text, and preacheth patience.

  George Herbert

  Want, Speak, Worst

  'The Church Porch' (1633) st. 72

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• Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.

  Alice Walker

  Family Life, Teach, Older Women

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• But the waiting time, my brothers,
  Is the hardest time of all.

  Sarah Doudney

  Brother, Waiting, Hardest Times

  Sarah Doudney (1871). “Psalms of life”, p.91

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• I do oppose
  My patience to his fury, and am arm'd
  To suffer, with a quietness of spirit,
  The very tyranny and rage of his.

  William Shakespeare

  Suffering, Arms, Spirit

  William Shakespeare (1863). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.343

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• Sometimes you have the feeling that some little imp is standing behind you and dictating to you, but he gives it to you slowly, drop by drop.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Giving, Feelings, Littles

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• To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Wisdom, Heart, Ambition

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.4236, Delphi Classics

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• Thus with hir fader for a certeyn space
  Dwelleth this flour of wyfly pacience,
  That neither by hir wordes ne hir face
  Biforn the folk, ne eek in her absence,
  Ne shewed she that hir was doon offence.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Space, Faces, Absence

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1874). “The Prioresses Tale: Sire Thopas, the Monkes Tale, the Clerkes Tale, the Squieres Tale, from the Canterbury Tales”, p.90

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• Patience is the courage of virtue.

  Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

  Virtue

  Jacques-Henri-Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (1818). “Paul and Virginia: Translated from the French of ...”, p.104

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• Your passion must be tempered with patience. Maybe long-suffering patience would be a better word.

  Jack White

  Passion, Long, Suffering

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• When a painting problem crops up, don't rush to fix it. You probably already know one way to fix it, but wait for something else to show up... invite the muses to bring you a new solution.

  Carole Katchen

  Waiting, Way, Painting

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• It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.

  George Eliot

  Reason Why, Patient, Easy

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.445, Wordsworth Editions

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• Patient endurance / Attaineth to all things.

  Teresa of Avila

  Endurance, Patient, All Things

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• Patience has tender feet.

  Austin O'Malley

  Feet

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• . . . Wait, my child, wait and work on. Patience, patience. . . . .

  Swami Vivekananda

  Perseverance, Children, Waiting

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2075, Manonmani Publishers

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• We have not faith, we have not patience to see this. We trust the man in the street; but there is one being in the universe we never trust and that is God. We trust Him when He works just our way. But the time will come when, getting blow after blow, the self - sufficient mind will die. In everything we do, the serpent ego is rising up. We are glad that there are so many thorns on the path. They strike the hood of the cobra.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Perseverance, Blow, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2644, Manonmani Publishers

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• Patience may be a virtue, but quitting is an art.

  Evan Harris

  Art, May, Quitting

  Evan Harris (2005). “The Art of Quitting”, Cassell Illustrated

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• Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Ego, Solitude, Openness

  "Sunbeams: A Book of Quotations". Book edited by Sy Safransky, p. 42, 1990.

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• The bane of sects, especially in Bengal, is that if any one happens to have a different opinion, he immediately starts a new sect, he has no patience to wait.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Perseverance, Waiting, Different

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1343, Manonmani Publishers

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