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• All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.

  Franz Kafka

  Errors, Issues, Fencing

  Franz Kafka (1994). “The collected aphorisms”

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• What may not be altered is made lighter by patience.

  Horace

  May, Made, Altered

  Horace (1903). “Horace for English Readers: Being a Translation of the Poems of Quintus Horatius Flaccus Into English Prose”

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• Waiting is an art that our impatient age has forgotten. It wants to break open the ripe fruit when it has hardly finished planting the shoot. But all too often the greedy eyes are only deceived; the fruit that seemed so precious is still green on the inside, and disrespected hands ungratefully toss aside what has so disappointed them.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Art, Eye, Hands

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas”, p.4, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Nihil tam acerbum est in quo non æquus animus solatium inveniat.
  There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind can not find some solace for it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Mind, Patient, Solace

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• Let this be one invariable rule of your conduct--never to show the least symptom of resentment, which you cannot, to a certain degree, gratify; but always to smile, where you cannot strike.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Smile, Degrees, Resentment

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.302, Oxford University Press

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• In order to make friends you must first be friendly

  Dale Carnegie

  Order, Friendly, Firsts

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• No man can be patient who has not strong passions, for patience is passion tamed.

  Lyman Abbott

  Strong, Passion, Men

  Lyman Abbott (2009). “The Theology of an Evolutionist”, p.118, Cambridge University Press

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• Patience is nobler motion than any deed.

  C. A. Bartol

  Deeds

  "Radical Problems". Book by C. A. Bartol, 1872.

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• On the whole, it is patience which makes the final difference between those who succeed or fail in all things. All the greatest people have it in an infinite degree, and among the less, the patient weak ones always conquer the impatient strong.

  John Ruskin

  Strong, Failure, Differences

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• In the course of the world, a man must very often put on an easy, frank countenance, upon very disagreeable occasions; he must seem pleased, when he is very much otherwise; he must be able to accost and receive with smiles, those whom he would much rather meet with swords.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Men, Tolerance, World

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.298, OUP Oxford

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• The fruit falls from the tree when it gets ripe. So wait for the time to come. Do not hurry. Moreover, no one has the right to make others miserable by his foolish acts. Wait, have patience, everything will come right in time.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Perseverance, Fall, Tree

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1988, Manonmani Publishers

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• In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.

  William Prescott

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

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• All things come round to him who will but wait.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Waiting, All Things, Rounds

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edwin Edwards (1871). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Edited, with a Critical Memoir, by W. M. Rossetti. Illustrated ... by E. Edwards”, p.317

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• Wait with patience and love and strength. If helpers are not ready now, they will come in time. Why should we be in a hurry? The real working force of all great work is in its almost unperceived beginnings.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Perseverance, Real, Waiting

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1678, Manonmani Publishers

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• Wait long enough and people will surprise and impress you.

  Randy Pausch

  Long, People, Waiting

  "Achieving Your Childhood Dreams". Randy Pausch's last lecture at McConomy Auditorium of Carnegie Mellon University, www.youtube.com. September 18, 2007.

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• So when I do Chinese cooking, I mix everything together, then the kids have to eat their vegetables. They won't have the patience to pick them out.

  Martin Yan

  Kids, Vegetables, Cooking

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• There's no music in rest, but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the life melody, always talking of perseverance and courage and fortitude; but patience is the finest and worthiest part of fortitude, and the rarest, too.

  John Ruskin

  Perseverance, Talking, People

  John Ruskin (1905). “Sesame and Lilies; The Ethics of the Dust; The Crown of Wild Olive: With Letters on Public Affairs, 1859-1866”

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• When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets?

  Jim Bishop

  Two, Car, House

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• Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?

  Andrew Greeley

  Country, Long, People

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• Who can be patient in extremes?

  William Shakespeare

  Patient, Be Patient, Extremes

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• I believe there's too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.

  Bob Woodward

  Believe, Television, Literature

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• Possess your soul with patience.

  John Dryden

  Soul, Your Soul

  John Dryden, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of John Dryden”

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• Infinite patience, infinite purity, and infinite perseverance are the secret of success in a good cause.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Perseverance, Secret, Causes

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2041, Manonmani Publishers

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• We must be careful not to let our current appetites steal away any chance we might have for a future feast

  Jim Rohn

  Perseverance, Future, Goal

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 26, 2012

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• All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Tolerance, Bears

  Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations (Diversion Classics)”, p.165, Diversion Books

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