Patience Quotes - Page 26

• Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Drinking, Funny Sarcastic, Giving

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• I’d like to be more patient! I just want everything now. I’ve tried to meditate, but it’s really hard for me to stay still. I’d like to try to force myself to do it, because everybody says how wonderful meditation is for you, but I can’t shut my mind up. So patience and learning is the key.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Keys, Meditation, Mind

  "Ellen DeGeneres Birthday: 55 Reasons We Love Her" by Nina Bahadur, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 26, 2013.

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• Christ commands you to take up His cross and follow Him, not that He may humble you, or lay some penance upon you, but that you may surrender the low self-will and the feeble pride of your sin, and ascend into the sublime patience of heavenly charity.

  Horace Bushnell

  Humble, Pride, Self

  Horace Bushnell (1858). “Sermons for the new life”, p.414

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• A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Relationship, Nature

  1841 Essays: First Series,'Friendship'.

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• Don't halloo until you're out of the wood.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Woods

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• Therefore, let us be patient, patient; and let God our Father teach His own lesson, His own way. Let us try to learn it well and quickly; but do not let us fancy that He will ring the school-bell, and send us to play before our lesson is learnt.

  Charles Kingsley

  Letting Go, Father, School

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “Out of the Deep: Words for the Sorrowful: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.65, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We have scarcely gotten home ... when our children's sneezes greet us, skinned knees bleed after waiting all day to do so. There is the bellyache and the burned-out basement bulb, the stalled car and the incontinent cat. The windows frost, the toilets sweat, the body of our spouse is one cold shoulder and the darkness of our bedroom is soon full of the fallen shadows of our failures.

  William H. Gass

  Time, Children, Failure

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• Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet, and from it learn the all.

  Margaret Fuller

  Stars, Lying, Feet

  Margaret Fuller (1961). “The Dial: A Magazine for Literature, Philosophy, and Religion”

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• I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Veteran, Judgment, Habit

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.9, e-artnow

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• There is no doubt that I have lots of words inside me; but at moments, like rush-hour traffic at the mouth of a tunnel, they jam.

  John Updike

  Tunnels, Doubt, Jam

  John Updike (2012). “Self-Consciousness: Memoirs”, p.80, Random House

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• Try looking at your mind as a wayward puppy that you are trying to paper train. You don't drop-kick a puppy into the neighbor's yard every time it piddles on the floor. You just keep bringing it back to the newspaper.

  Anne Lamott

  Mind, Trying, Paper

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.99, Anchor

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• It almost seems as though this roiling world is conspiring to test our patience at every turn. In fact, it is. With this in mind, we would be wise to look on our imperfect environment as a teacher rather than an antagonist. It constantly shows us that we need to be patient on an ongoing basis, not just every now and then, if we´re going to realize true inner peace, happiness, and fulfillment.

  Surya Das

  Wise, Teacher, Inner Peace

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• For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching has become a regular habit, until he is able to admit and accept what he finds, and until he patiently and persistently tries to correct what is wrong.

  Bill W.

  Wise, Self, Trying

  Bill W. (1953). “Twelve steps and twelve traditions”, Alcoholics Anonymous World Serv inc

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• No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.

  Lewis Carroll

  Adventure, Adventurous Life, Wonderland

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• Tell me what's the difference

  Anna Kamienska

  Differences

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• There was a time when Patience ceased to be a virtue. It was long ago.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Long Ago, Long, Virtue

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• A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.

  William Faulkner

  Years, Mules, Privilege

  William Faulkner (2011). “Flags in the Dust: The complete text of Faulkner's third novel, which appeared in a cut version as Sartoris”, p.290, Vintage

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• Beware the fury of a patient man.

  John Dryden

  Inspirational, Christian, Wise

  'Absalom and Achitophel' (1681) pt. 1, l. 1005

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• While it is true that Frank had a great sense of humor, he was also very serious about composing music. In reality there are only a handful of skilled players who can play his most complex pieces. It takes a lot of patience to learn and requires a fantastic memory.

  Dweezil Zappa

  Memories, Humor, Player

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• There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.

  J. G. Holland

  Inspirational, Positive, Perseverance

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• Freindshipp is beyond all relations of flesh and blood, because it is less materiall.

  John Evelyn

  Friendship, Real, Heart

  "The Life of Mrs. Godolphin" by John Evelyn, London: William Pickering, (pp. 20-21), 1847.

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• The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Motivational, Positive, Sight

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• A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Friendship, Best Friend

  'Essays' (1841) 'Friendship'

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• Patience gives your spouse permission to be human. It understands that everyone fails. When a mistake is made, it chooses to give them more time that they deserve to correct it. It gives you the ability to hold on during the rough times in your relationship rather than bailing out under the pressure.

  Stephen Kendrick

  Mistake, Giving, Pressure

  Stephen Kendrick, Alex Kendrick (2013). “The Love Dare Day by Day, Gift Edition: A Year of Devotions for Couples”, p.25, B&H Publishing Group

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• Learn a little patience. You never know what might be around the corner.

  Chris d'Lacey

  Littles, Might, Corners

  Chris d'Lacey (2011). “The Fire Within”, p.139, Scholastic Inc.

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