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• Our patience will achieve more than our force.

  Edmund Burke

  Inspirational, Virtue, Strategy

  'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790) p. 249

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• I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

  Edith Sitwell

  Stupid, Ignorance, Proud

  "The Last Years of a Rebel: A Memoir of Edith Sitwell". Book by Elizabeth Salter, 1967.

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• Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

  William Shakespeare

  Tired, Mares, Being Patience

  William Shakespeare (1998). “Henry V”, p.93, Penguin

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• He who was living is now dead We who were living are now dying With a little patience.

  T. S. Eliot

  Dying, Littles, Waste Land

  1922 The Waste Land, pt.5,'What the Thunder Said'.

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• Abused patience turns to fury.

  Thomas Fuller

  Anger, Be Patient, Rage

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• A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.

  Moliere

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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• The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Calm

  "Living Like Benjamin: Making Dreams Come True". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (p. 143), November 1, 2007.

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• The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Time, Warrior, Two

  Leo Tolstoy (2012). “War and Peace”, p.851, Modern Library

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• Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Happiness, Success, Genius

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5023, Delphi Classics

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• Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.

  William Penn

  Mountain, Due Diligence, Concentration

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.43, Courier Corporation

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• No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

  Epictetus

  Life, Time, Wine

  Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.48

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• Genius is eternal patience.

  Michelangelo

  Positive, Art, Life And Love

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• Every man must patiently bide his time. He must wait -- not in listless idleness but in constant, steady, cheerful endeavors, always willing and fulfilling and accomplishing his task, that when the occasion comes he may be equal to the occasion.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Men, Waiting, Cheerful

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1882, Delphi Classics

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• He who says patience, says courage, endurance, strength.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Endurance

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• Who is the great man? He who is strongest in patience. He who patiently endures injury, and maintains a blameless life--he is a man indeed!

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Men, Injury, Endure

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• Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.

  Baltasar Gracian

  No Patience, Retiring, I Have No Patience

  "The Art of Worldy Wisdom". Book by Baltasar Gracián, 1647.

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• Patience is so like fortitude that she seems either her sister or her daughter.

  Aristotle

  Daughter, Fortitude, Seems

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• Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Time, Religion

  Mahatma Gandhi (1969). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Trust, Encouraging, Uplifting

  Corrie Ten Boom (1985). “Jesus is Victor”, Fleming H Revell Company

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• There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Long, Honor

  "Les Caracteres". Book by Jean de la Bruyere (Des jugements, aphorism 108), 1688.

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• Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

  Carl Jung

  Love, Happiness, Sad

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• Know it for certain that without steady devotion for the Guru and unflinching patience and perseverance, nothing is to be achieved. You must have strict morality.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Perseverance, Morality, Devotion

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3373, Manonmani Publishers

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• We can do anything, or almost, but how balanced, magnanimous, and modest one has to be to do anything! And also how patient. It is as true in the arts as anywhere else.

  May Sarton

  Art, Patient, Modest

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.10, Open Road Media

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• When you feel gloomy, think what has been done within the last year. How, rising from nothing.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Perseverance, Thinking, Years

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1984, Manonmani Publishers

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