Patience Quotes - Page 23

• I have patience in all things - as far as the antechamber.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Having Patience, All Things

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• I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Ambition

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• "Learn what can, and cannot, be asked from destiny."

  Janet Morris

  Destiny, Logic, Strategy

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• Only so much can be borne from men, so much from gods

  Janet Morris

  Men, Ontology, Ethics

  Janet Morris (2011). “Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko”, p.72, Paradise Publishing

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• Good things come to those who initiate.

  Susan RoAne

  Fitness, Workout, Monday

  Susan RoAne (2009). “Face to Face: How to Reclaim the Personal Touch in a Digital World”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• When men are engaged in war and conquest, the tools of science become as dangerous as a razor in the hands of a child of three. We must not condemn man because his inventiveness and patient conquest of the forces of nature are being exploited for false and destructive purposes. Rather, we should remember that the fate of mankind hinges entirely upon man’s moral development.

  Albert Einstein

  Children, War, Fate

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• And then--a Day as huge
  As Yesterdays in pairs,
  Unrolled its horror in my face--
  Until it blocked my eyes

  Emily Dickinson

  Gratitude, Eye, Yesterday

  Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.168, Harvard University Press

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• The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly upon unassisted genius and natural sagacity.

  Samuel Johnson

  Generations, Genius, Disease

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.237

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• Patience is the capacity to endure all that is necessary in attaining a desired end. ... Patience never forsakes the ultimate goal because the road is hard. There can be no patience without an object.

  Margaret Kennedy

  Goal, Ends, Capacity

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• You have to find the peace and patience within yourself to be a model and an example to others and not judge.

  Judith Light

  Umpires, Judging, Example

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• Take up an idea, devote yourself to it, struggle on in patience, and the sun will rise for you.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Struggle, Ideas, Sun

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2629, Manonmani Publishers

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• When the precipitancy of a man's wishes hurries on his ideas ninety times faster than the vehicle he rides in--woe be to truth!

  Laurence Sterne

  Men, Ideas, Wish

  Laurence Sterne (1849). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy ... [etc.] ; with a Life of the Author Written by Himself”, p.215

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• [On being an actor] .nothing more than a worker in a service occupation . It's like being a waiter or a gas station attendant, but I'm waiting on 6 million people in a week if I'm lucky.

  Harrison Ford

  Time, People, Waiting

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• Sometimes you just have to be patient and brave and strong. If you don't know how, just make it up as you go along.

  Douglas Pagels

  Courage, Strong, Brave

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• Patience; accomplish thy labor; accomplish thy work of affection!
  Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.
  Therefore accomplish thy labor of love, till the heart is made godlike,
  Purified, strengthened, perfected, and rendered more worthy of heaven.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Strong, Heart, Heaven

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.112

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• Let nothing disturb thee,
  Nothing affright thee;
  All things are passing;
  God never changeth;
  Patient endurance
  Attaineth to all things;
  Who God possesseth
  In nothing is wanting;
  Alone God sufficeth.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Endurance, Patient, Never Change

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.694, Library of America

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• Learn to see - accustoming the eye to calm, to patience, to letting-things-come-to-it; learning to defer judgment, to encircle and encompass the question on all sides.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Eye, Sides, Calm

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• Never change horses in midstream.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Horse, Never Change

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• When I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of stress and anxiety; if I sit in my own place of patience, what I need flows to me, and without pain. From this I understand that what I want also wants me, is looking for me and attracting me. There is a great secret here for anyone who can grasp it.

  Rumi

  Running, Pain, Stress

  Rumi (2017). “Rumi Poetry: 100 Bedtime Verses”, Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

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• A weed is a plant we've found no use for yet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Weed, Use, Plant

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• Simplicity, patience, compassion.
  These three are your greatest treasures.
  Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.
  Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are.
  Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.

  Laozi

  Life, Philosophy, Simple

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• Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience.

  Thomas Perry

  Reading, Hard Work, Character

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• What happens if I do nothing?

  Robert Breault

  Happens, Ifs

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• The best mirror is an old friend.

  George Herbert

  Friendship, Real Friends, Good Friend

  George Herbert, Joseph Hall (1855). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: And The Satires and Psalms of Bishop Hall”, p.303

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• The more haste, the less speed.

  John Heywood

  Haste, Speed

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.384

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