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• If I could have one prayer answered, I would pray for patience. I move so fast sometimes. I try to slow down.

  Debra Winger

  Prayer, Moving, Trying

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  Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Atlanta Magazine, April 2008.

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• Talent is a long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Long, Effort, Originality

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• Impatient men are generous ones. Or haven't you learned that by now?

  Megan Chance

  Men, Generosity, Impatient

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• Fate chooses your relations,
  you choose your friends.

  Jacques Delille

  Friendship, Fate, Friends Forever

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• Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.

  Virgil

  Determination, Philosophical, Endurance

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• Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Clothes, Vex, Patient

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

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• It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Cheating, Truth, Honesty

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Essays”, p.49, Open Road Media

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• Even a snail will eventually reach its destination.

  Gail Tsukiyama

  Destination, Snail

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• Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Hopeless, Hopelessness

  "Letting Go of Hope" by Margaret J. Wheatley, www.motherjones.com. November 28, 2005.

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• Patience leads to power; but eagerness in greed leads to loss.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Loss, Greed, Eagerness

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• Patience is a fruit of the spirit that grows only under trial. It is useless to pray for patience. Well, actually I encourage you to pray for patience, but I'll tell you what you'll get TRIALS!

  Joyce Meyer

  Trials, Useless, Fruits Of The Spirit

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• Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.

  William Shakespeare

  Venice, Shylock, Tribes

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 3, l. [107]

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• Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Happiness, Time, Past

  Soren Kierkegaard (1946). “Either/or”

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• Constant repetition of tongue-twisters was like lifting weights for me, but patience and persistence have paid off.

  Nicholas Brendon

  Persistence, Lifting Weights, Tongue

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• My relationship with the Philharmonia Orchestra brought me many times to London and I will always reflect positively on that early period of development with them - their patience, their warmth, their dedication.

  Gustavo Dudamel

  Dedication, Development, Orchestra

  "Gustavo Dudamel and London: a special relationship" by Marshall Marcus, www.theguardian.com. June 19, 2012.

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• Ever since I can remember, I've always wanted to tell stories, but I never had the patience to sit down at a typewriter and write short stories or anything like that. I started writing songs as a way of communicating ideas the best way I could.

  Rob Thomas

  Song, Writing, Typewriters

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• Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Life, Peace, War

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.194

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• Vengeance is disappointing, always.

  Janet Morris

  Love, Responsibility, Vengeance

  Janet Morris (2011). “Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko”, p.163, Paradise Publishing

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• Don't put the cart before the horse.

  John Heywood

  Horse, Carts

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• I realized that the deepest spiritual lessons are not learned by His letting us have our way in the end, but by His making us wait, bearing with us in love and patience until we are able to honestly to pray what He taught His disciples to pray: Thy will be done.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Inspiring, Spiritual, Waiting

  Elisabeth Elliot, Joshua Harris (2002). “Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control”, p.89, Revell

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• Teach me to feel that Thou art always nigh;
  Teach me the struggles of the soul to bear;
  To check the rising doubt, the rebel sigh;
  Teach me the patience of unanswered prayer.

  George Croly

  Art, Prayer, Struggle

  George Croly (1851). “Scenes from scripture: with other poems”, p.13

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• More things to remember:
  7) The value of time;
  8) The pleasure of working;
  9) The obligation of duty;
  10) The power of kindness;
  11) The wisdom of economy;
  12) The virtue of patience.

  Marshall Field

  Kindness, Remember, Virtue

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• Waiting does not exist in the experience of those who recognize the presence of love wherever they are.

  Alan Cohen

  Waiting, Doe, Presence Of Love

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• Patience is no small, fell-good personal quality. It is at the heart of diplomacy and civility, lawfulness and civil order. Without it, people can't work together and society can't function at all. With it, we create the possibility of peace between people and between nations.

  M. J. Ryan

  Heart, Order, Personal Qualities

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