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• Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim.
  Have patience and endure; this unhappiness will one day be beneficial.

  Ovid

  One Day, Unhappiness, Endure

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• He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.

  William Golding

  Sea, Sailing, Woven

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• God, teach me to be patient, teach me to go slow

  Helen Steiner Rice

  Uptight, Patient, Teach

  Helen Steiner Rice, Virginia Ruehlmann (2004). “The Poems and Prayers of Helen Steiner Rice”, p.222, Revell

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• There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience.

  Chuck Tanner

  Leadership, Secret, Important

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• Patience is the key of content.

  Mehmed the Conqueror

  Keys

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• Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait. There is nothing stronger than those two: patience and time, they will do it all.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Two, Waiting, Stronger

  "War and Peace: Top 100 Classic Novels".

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• He preacheth patience that never knew pain

  Henry George Bohn

  Pain

  Henry George Bohn, John Ray (1855). “A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages. And a Complete Alphabetical Index”, p.381

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• If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.

  Hal Borland

  Strength, Tree, Arbor Day

  Hal Borland (2014). “Beyond Your Doorstep: A Handbook to the Country”, p.77, Open Road Media

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• All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.

  Thomas Fuller

  Suffering, Be Patient, Endure

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• They also serve who only stand and wait.

  John Milton

  Waiting, Patience And Waiting

  "When I consider how my light is spent" l. 14 (1673)

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• Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

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• A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it's tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows?

  Aaron Spelling

  Thinking, Years, Littles

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• Patience is the panacea; but where does it grow, or who can swallow it?

  William Shenstone

  Doe, Panacea, Grows

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.153

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• Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.

  Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

  Inspirational, Design, Genius

  See Thomas Carlyle 19; Edison 2; Jane Ellice Hopkins 1

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• To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.

  Samuel Johnson

  Be Patient, Vain, Duty

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.32

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• Infinite Patience brings Immediate Results.

  Wayne Dyer

  Be Patient, Infinite, Results

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• All's well in the end, if you've only the patience to wait.

  Francois Rabelais

  Waiting, Ends, Wells

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• Don't get impatient when it takes too long.

  Drake

  Long, Impatient

  Song: Light Up, Album: Thank Me Later, 2010

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• All things come to him who mates.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Waiting, Mates, All Things

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• Patience and shuffle the cards.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Advice, Cards, Shuffle

  Don Quixote pt. 2, ch. 23 (1605)

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• Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.

  Peter Marshall

  Work, Discipline, Christian Inspirational

  Dr. Peter Marshall (2016). “Mr. Jones, Meet the Master: Sermons And Prayers Of Peter Marshall”, p.277, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• O gentle son, Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper, sprinkle cool patience.

  William Shakespeare

  Son, Flames, Sprinkles

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.398

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• How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspiring, Success, Perseverance

  Elbert Hubbard (2005). “Loyalty in Business: One and Twenty Other Good Things”, p.28, Cosimo, Inc.

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• By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Strength, Time, Toil

  Jean de La Fontaine (1843). “Fables”, p.98

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• There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.

  Linda Hogan

  Nature, Garden, Land

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