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• There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

  Sivananda

  Failure, Understanding, Patient

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• Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Hurt, Power

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

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• It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

  Julius Caesar

  Pain, Bad Ass, Men

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• Patience is also a form of action.

  Auguste Rodin

  Work, Excellence, Action

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• Humility is attentive patience.

  Simone Weil

  Humble, Humility

  Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.111, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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  Endurance is patience concentrated.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Determination

  "One More Step the 638 Best Quotes for the Runner: Motivation for the Next Step". Book by Randy L. Thurman, p. 81, en.wikiquote.org. July 3, 2012.

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• Don't cross the bridge til you come to it.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Bridges, Crosses

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• Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.

  Homer

  Wise, Reality, Patient

  Homer (1873). “The Odyssey of Homer”, p.57

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• We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Courage

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.111, Om Books International

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• To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success.

  Joseph de Maistre

  Motivational, Success, Waiting

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• Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Leadership, Learning, Simple

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• The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.

  Ralph Marston

  Faith, Acceptance, Keys

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• Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. it's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.

  Barack Obama

  Perseverance, Real, Failure

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• The past is an illusion. You must learn to live in the present and accept yourself for what you are now. What you lack in flexibility and agility you must make up with knowledge and constant practice.

  Bruce Lee

  Past, Practice, Agility

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• There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.

  Franz Kafka

  Art, Spring, Anger

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• Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

  Francis Bacon

  Optimism, Soul, Possession

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• The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And yes, there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It's called being human.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Strength, Able, Being Human

  "Elizabeth Edwards dies after battle with cancer". www.cnn.com. December 7, 2010.

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• Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

  James Russell Lowell

  Passion, Heart, Effectiveness

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.166, Delphi Classics

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• A moment of patience in a moment of anger prevents a thousand moments of regret.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Regret, Anger, Islamic

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• Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Sarcastic, Virtue, Form

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• Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Strength, Support, Literature

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• Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Calm Mind, Comfort, Bitter

  "On Tranquility of the Mind". Seneca the Younger's letter to Serenus as translated in William Bell Langsdorf "Tranquillity of Mind and Providence", 1900.

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• Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Be Patient, Passive, Active

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• Patience wins the race.

  Bernard Barton

  Winning, Race

  Bernard Barton (1828). “A new year's eve, and other poems”, p.38

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• A waiting person is a patient person. The word patience means the willingness to stay where we are and live the situation out to the full in the belief that something hidden there will manifest itself to us.

  Henri Nouwen

  Mean, Patient Person, Waiting

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