Patient Quotes - Page 10

• So it's been a slow process and it's taken some patience. That's why patients are called patients I think - patience is required.

  Bowie Kuhn

  Patience, Taken, Thinking

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• Patients describing the benefits of prayer often talk about how it provides a sense of well being.

  Armstrong Williams

  Prayer, Benefits, Praying

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• I've never been as happy as I am now, because I followed the signs, I was patient, and I know that this is going to change everything.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Happiness, Inspiring

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• Patients would come in and say, Well, my baby is going to have a cleft palate. I'm going like, that's not a reason. And the doctor would do the abortion.

  Norma McCorvey

  Baby, Doctors, Abortion

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• "Softly, softly, catchee monkey," is the West African rendering of a very valuable precept. An awful lot of men fail through lack of patient persistence.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Persistence, Men, Monkeys

  Robert Baden-Powell (2013). “Playing the Game: A Baden-Powell Compendium”, p.271, Pan Macmillan

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• I have seen doctors, in good faith, leave patients on steroids for years, thinking they are doing right. A friend of mine was on steroids for so long, she has severe osteoporosis.

  Mary Ann Mobley

  Thinking, Doctors, Years

  "Mary Ann Mobley: going public about a private disease". Saturday Evening Post Interview with Cory SerVaas, January 1, 1994.

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• Often, in the Ruy Lopez, one must be patient, wait and carry on a lengthy and wearisome struggle.

  Boris Spassky

  Struggle, Waiting, Chess

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• The patients who constantly feel their pulse are not getting any better.

  Hubert Van Zeller

  Healing, Pulse, Feels

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• Wait for the idea. It may not come at first, but you must be patient, never doubting, waiting in faith. It will come.

  Ernest Holmes

  Inspiration, Ideas, Waiting

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• The poison leaves bit by bit, not all at once. Be patient. You are healing.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Patience, Healing, Poison

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• Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.

  Beatrice Webb

  Strong, Fear, Hell

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• We need to win something for the fans because they have been patient and very understanding and we owe them.

  Jamie Redknapp

  Winning, Understanding, Fans

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• A writer's work has to take account of many rhythms: Vulcan's and Mercury's, a message of urgency obtained by dint of patient and meticulous adjustments and an intuition so instantaneous that, when formulated, it acquires the finality of something that could never have been otherwise. But it is also the rhythm of time that passes with no other aim than to let feelings and thoughts settle down, mature, and shed all impatience or ephemeral contingency.

  Italo Calvino

  Feelings, Intuition, Ephemeral

  Italo Calvino (1988). “Six Memos for the Next Millennium”, p.54, Harvard University Press

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• Be patient in trials, watchful in prayer, and never cease working.

  Francis of Assisi

  Prayer, Trials, Cease

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• We must not only be patient with others, infinitely patient, but also with our own poor selves.

  Shoghi Effendi

  Self, Be Patient, Poor

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• As we go forth into the coming year, let it not be in the haste of impetuous, forgetful delight, nor with the quickness of impulsive thoughtlessness . But let us go out with the patient power of knowing that the God of Israel will go before us.

  Oswald Chambers

  Israel, Years, Knowing

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.90, Discovery House

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• Patience is a mind that is able to accept fully and happily, whatever occurs. It is much more than just gritting our teeth and putting up with things. Being patient means to welcome wholeheartedly whatever arises, having given up the idea that things should be other than what they are.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Mean, Ideas, Mind

  Kelsang Gyatso (2001). “Transform Your Life: A Blissful Journey”, p.319, Tharpa Publications UK

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• Whatever happens in your life, joyful or painful, do not be swept away by reactivity. Be patient with yourself and don't lose your sense of perspective.

  Pema Chodron

  Perspective, Painful, Joyful

  Pema Chodron (2007). “Always Maintain a Joyful Mind: And Other Lojong Teachings on Awakening Compassion and Fearlessness”, p.85, Shambhala Publications

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• When things aren't working out as you wish, be patient. Stop trying to move ahead of God. His timing is perfect. Trust Him.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Moving, Work Out, Perfect

  Twitter post from Apr 23, 2013

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• Train your mind the same way you’d train a puppy: Be patient, be consistent, and have some fun along the way.

  Jack Kornfield

  Fun, Mind, Way

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• Be patient, because the weaknesses of the body are given to us in this world by God for the salvation of the soul. So they are of great merit when they are borne patiently.

  Francis of Assisi

  Soul, Weakness, World

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• Think of me as a fellow patient in the same hospital who, having been admitted a little earlier could give some advice.

  C. S. Lewis

  Thinking, Giving, Advice

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• Why is a believer patient? Because he looks for the coming of the Lord...He waits quietly for the King.

  J. C. Ryle

  Kings, Waiting, Looks

  J.C RYLE, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “HOLINESS;BEING PLAIN PAPERS ON ITS NATURE, HINDRANCES, DIFFICULTIES AND ROOTS”, Lulu.com

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• Be patient, even if every possibility seems closed.

  Rumi

  Possibility, Seems, Ifs

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• It may sound paradoxical, but however tight our schedule, however many things clamor to be done, we don't need to hurry. If we can keep our mind calm and go about our business with undivided attention, we will not only accomplish more but we'll do a better job - and find ourselves more patient, more at peace.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Jobs, Mind, Sound

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