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• Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

  Ovid

  Be Patient, Hours

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.305, Delphi Classics

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• You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Inspirational, Learning, Firsts

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• Other people can’t cause us to be impatient unless we let them do so. In other words, others don’t make us impatient. We make ourselves impatient, through our expectations and demands, fixated attachments and stuckness.

  Surya Das

  Attachment, People, Expectations

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• Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

  Barbara Johnson

  Optimism, Gears, Stripping

  Barbara Johnson (2008). “When Your Child Breaks Your Heart: Help for Hurting Moms”, p.134, Revell

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• The practice of patience guards us against losing our presence of mind. It enables us to remain undisturbed, even when the situation is really difficult. It gives us a certain amount of inner peace, which allows us some self-control, so that we can choose to respond to situations in an appropriate and compassionate manner, rather than being driven by our disturbing emotions.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Buddhist, Peace

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• Patience is the art of hoping.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Success, Art, Hopeful

  Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

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• I learn it every day of my life, learn it with pain I am grateful for: patience is everything!

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Pain, Grateful, Ripening

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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• Patience is not just about waiting for something... it's about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.

  Joyce Meyer

  Attitude, Waiting, No Patience

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• I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Perseverance

  Abraham Lincoln (1999). “The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

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• Hope is patience with the lamp lit.

  Tertullian

  Hope, Lamps, Lit

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• Patience and fortitude conquer all things.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Be Patient, Conquer

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• I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Perseverance, Powerful, Political

  In Observer 4 Apr. 1989

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• Every work has got to pass through hundreds of difficulties before succeeding. Those that persevere will see the light, sooner or later.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Perseverance, Light, Succeed

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2072, Manonmani Publishers

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• In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair-mindedness, and gentleness with what is strange.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Strange, Ends, Good Will

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1974). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, Vintage

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• Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience.

  Hyman Rickover

  Life, Motivational, Courage

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• Don't try to rush things: for the cup to run over, it must first be filled.

  Antonio Machado

  Running, Trying, Cups

  Antonio Machado, Alan S. Trueblood (1982). “Selected poems”, Harvard Univ Pr

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• Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Spring, Decisions You Make, Critical Decisions

  Robert H. Schuller (1993). “Robert H Schuller: The Inspirational Writings : Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do/Tough Minded Faith for Tender Hearted People”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• The principle part of faith is patience.

  George MacDonald

  Faith, Principles

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• He that can have patience can have what he will.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Sports, Determination, Golf

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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• If we could look into each other’s hearts and understand the unique challenges each of us faces, I think we would treat each other much more gently, with more love, patience, tolerance, and care.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Love, Inspirational, Relationship

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• To lose patience is to lose the battle.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Optimism, Battle

  Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore (1968). “Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India”

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• If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent

  Isaac Newton

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• A leaf that is destined to grow large is full of grooves and wrinkles at the start. Now if one has no patience and wants it smooth offhand like a willow leaf, there is trouble ahead.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Encouragement, Wrinkles, Goal

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• The more patient we are, the more understanding we become.

  William Arthur Ward

  Understanding, Patient

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• I have not the smarts or patience for political office.

  Henry Rollins

  Smart, Office, Political

  "Henry Rollins Answers Your Questions About Politics". Interview with AV Club, www.avclub.com. April 19, 2007.

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