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Quotes about Patience


The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.

George Herbert

It is hard! But what can not be removed, becomes lighter through patience. [Lat., Durum! sed levius fir patientia Quicquid corrigere est nefas.]

Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)

For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill.

Samuel Johnson

By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never. [Fr., Patience et longueur de temps. Font plus que force ni que rage.]

Jean de la Fontaine

Rule by patience, Laughing Water!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

James Russell Lowell

Or arm th' obdured breast With stubborn patience as with triple steel.

John Milton

Have patience and endure; this unhappiness will one day be beneficial. [Lat., Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim.]

Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. [Fr., La patience est amere, mais son fruit est doux.]

Phaedrus (Thrace of Macedonia)

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

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Have patience with all things, but first of all with yourself.

St. Francis de Sales

Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.

W. H. Auden

Acquaintance without patience is like a candle with no light.

Iranian Proverb

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in one ahead.

Bill Mcglashen

For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Indian Proverb

There are times when God asks nothing of His children except silence, patience and tears.

C. S. Robinson

Patience and passage of time do more than strength and fury.

Jean de la Fontaine

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

Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

Patience, n.—A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.

Ambrose Bierce

If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives.

Marquise De Sévigné

Patience is a minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.

Ambrose Bierce

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

Patience is power; with time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes silk.

Chinese Proverb

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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