Patience Quotes - Page 25

• Impatience is a sign of hurrying; hurrying is a sign of worrying; worrying is a sign someone forgot time is on their side.

  Mike Dooley

  Optimism, Worry, Sides

  FaceBook post by Mike Dooley from Jul 26, 2012

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• We must accept the reality that the causes of impatience travel a two-way street.

  Allan Lokos

  Reality, Two, Way

  Allan Lokos (2012). “Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living”, p.92, Penguin

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• Patience is supported & nurtured by a quality of forgiveness.

  Allan Lokos

  Quality

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• He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding.

  William Shakespeare

  Cake, Wheat, Cookery

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.737

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• Any methodology for developing patience requires a multi-tiered approach.

  Allan Lokos

  Methodology, Approach, Developing

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• We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.
  Abraham Lincoln, White House speech 11 April 1865.
  Or arm th' obdured breast
  With stubborn patience as with triple steel.

  John Milton

  White, Eggs, House

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• Slow down. Calm down. Don't worry. Don't hurry. Trust the process.

  Alexandra Stoddard

  Worry, Calm, Slow Down

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• Master books, but do not let them master you.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Book, Overcoming Addiction, Addiction Recovery

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• It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Friendship, Truth, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.81

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• Patience is sottish, and impatience does become a dog that's mad.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Mad, Doe

  William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.169

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• A very little thief of occasion will rob you of a great deal of patience.

  William Shakespeare

  Thieves, Littles, Deals

  William Shakespeare, Philip Brockbank (1976). “Coriolanus: Second Series”, p.152, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

  Andre Gide

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "The Counterfeiters". Book by Andre Gide, 1925.

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• The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned.

  Fred Brooks

  Children, Matter, Nine

  "The Mythical Man-Month," Datamation, Dec. 1974

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• Don't throw the ball before you have it.

  Vern Law

  Balls

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• There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Affair, Slowness

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• Let things alone; let them weigh what they will; let them soar or fall.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fall, Action, Soar

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.361, Penguin

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• There is one form of hope which is never unwise, and which certainly does not diminish with the increase of knowledge. In that form it changes its name, and we call it patience.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Names, Doe, Increase

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• Logic can be patient, for it is eternal.

  Oliver Heaviside

  Patient, Logic, Eternal

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• I'm bidin' my time,
  'Cause that's the kinda guy I'm.

  Ira Gershwin

  Guy, Waiting, Causes

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• Extreme patience and persistence are required,
  Yet everybody succeeds at this before being handed
  The surprise box lunch of the rest of his life.

  John Ashbery

  Life, Growing Up, Persistence

  John Ashbery (1981). “Shadow train: poems”, Viking Adult

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• Show yourself a Christian by suffering without murmuring. In patience possess your soul - they lose nothing who gain Christ.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Christian, Soul, Suffering

  Samuel Rutherford (1867). “Letters of the Rev. Samuel Rutherford”, p.360

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• Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the time, and not be discouraged at the rests. If we say sadly to ourselves, "There is no music in a rest," let us not forget " there is the making of music in it." The making of music is often a slow and painful process in this life. How patiently God works to teach us! How long He waits for us to learn the lesson!

  John Ruskin

  Writing, Long, Waiting

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 443), 1895.

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• This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.

  Wilkie Collins

  Men, Stories, Achieve

  Wilkie Collins (2013). “The Woman in White”, p.1, Courier Corporation

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• I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul.

  Dick Dale

  Anger, Frustration, Play

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• To toughen up, is to calm down.

  Doug Melvin

  Humility, Calm, Calm Down

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