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• Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement.

  Vera Nazarian

  Achievement, Virtue

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• Patience means self-suffering.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Acceptance, Self

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.61, Hackett Publishing

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• Patience makes a woman beautiful in middle age.

  Elliot Paul

  Beautiful, Age, Middle

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• That which in mean men we entitle patience is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.

  William Shakespeare

  Mean, Men, Noble

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Second Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.24, BookCaps Study Guides

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• My advice to someone to follow in my footsteps is to have patience. I've been doing this for twelve years.

  Christina Milian

  Years, Advice, Twelve

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• Patience is a virtue Savannah, to tolerate delay. It implies self control and forbearance, as opposed to wanting what we want when we want it. Something to think about. . .

  Catherine Weaver

  Thinking, Self, Delay

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• Everything comes if a man will only wait.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Hope, Men, Expectations

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.3352, Delphi Classics

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• To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Perfection, Done, Bears

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• Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

  Cato the Elder

  Virtue, Fame, Patience Is A Virtue

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• How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

  William Shakespeare

  Degrees, Poor, Heal

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 2, sc. 3, l. [379]

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• I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.

  Robert Falcon Scott

  Long, Waiting, Trying

  Robert Falcon Scott (2012). “Scott's Last Expedition: Diaries, 26 November 1910 - 29 March 1912”, p.62, Amberley Publishing Limited

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• The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

  Epictetus

  Wise, Philosophical, Power

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• Patience is the mother of will.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Mother

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• Perhaps then, some day far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Depression, Mindfulness, Questions And Answers

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

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• And you very soon find out, if you have not found it out before, that patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

  Thomas Huxley

  Inspirational, Life, Perseverance

  "Critiques and Addresses".

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• The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

  George Washington

  Inspiration, 4th Of July, Men

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• Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.

  Carl Sandburg

  Inspirational, Nature, Roots

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “The People, Yes”, p.25, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In times of uncertainty, wait. Always, if you have any doubt, wait. Do not force yourself to any action. If you have a restraint in your spirit, wait until all is clear, and do not go against it.

  Lettie Cowman

  Waiting, Doubt, Spirit

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• Character never quits; and with patience and persistence; Dreams do come true!

  Pete Maravich

  Dream, Character, Persistence

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• A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

  Len Wein

  Friendship, Best Friend, Clever

  "1001 Affirmations" - by Herbert P. Windschitl - Poetry, 2003.

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• Great men wait for the right moment to abandon caution. The rest of us abandon it when impatience becomes too much for us.

  Mason Cooley

  Men, Waiting, Too Much

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• I think patience is a skill and I wish I had it.

  David Duchovny

  Thinking, Skills, Wish

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• The real test is not whether you avoid failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it. . .

  Barack Obama

  Perseverance, Real, Failure

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• If, like the prophet Noah, you have patience in the distress of the flood, Calamity turns aside, and the desire of a thousand years comes forth.

  Hafez

  Years, Desire, Prophet

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• It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words, "And this too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!

  Abraham Lincoln

  Life, Encouraging, Wise

  Address beforeWisconsin State Agricultural Society, Milwaukee,Wis., 30 Sept. 1859

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