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"Learn what can, and cannot, be asked from destiny.”

Janet Morris

Patience, Wisdom, Logic, Strategy
2

A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.

William Faulkner

Patience
3

A patient man is one who can put up with himself.

Patience
4

Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Patience
5

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

Franz Kafka

Patience
6

All things come round to him who will but wait.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Patience
7

All things come to him who waits -- provided he knows what he is waiting for.

Woodrow Wilson

Patience
8

Beware the fury of a patient man.

John Dryden

Patience
9

Dios tarda pero no olvida -- God delays but doesn't forget.

Patience
10

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

Patience
11

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

Thomas Edison

Patience
12

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

Michel de Montaigne

Patience
13

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them -- every day begin the task anew -

Francis de Sales

Patience
14

Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.

Saadi

Patience
15

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Benjamin Franklin

Patience
16

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Rudyard Kipling

Patience
17

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

William Shakespeare

Patience
18

I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.

Margaret Thatcher

Patience
19

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

Edith Sitwell

Patience
20

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

Charlie Chaplin

Patience
21

I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.

Albert Einstein

Patience
22

If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.

Isaac Newton

Patience
23

If you are tempted to lose patience with your fellowman; stop and think how patient God has been with you.

Patience
24

If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big.

Hesiod

Patience
25

In all evils which admits a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes the time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might remove the cause.

Samuel Johnson

Patience
26

It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.

William Cobbett

Patience
27

Let this be understood, then, at starting; that the patient conquest of difficulties which rise in the regular and legitimate channels of business and enterprise is not only essential in securing the success which you seek but it is essential to that preparation of your mind, requisite for the enjoyment of your successes, and for retaining them when gained. So, day by day, and week by week; so month after month, and year after year, work on, and in that process gain strength and symmetry, and nerve and knowledge, that when success, patiently and bravely worked for, shall come, it may find you prepared to receive it and keep it,

Josiah Gilbert Holland

Patience
28

Like farmers we need to learn that we cannot sow and reap the same day.

Patience
29

Little by little, through patience and repeated effort, the mind will become stilled in the Self.

Patience
30

Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

B. C. Forbes

Patience
31

My son, observe the postage stamp! Its usefulness depends upon its ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.

Josh Billings

Patience
32

Nothing great 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

Patience
33

Of all the things that tax a man's patience, there's nothing to compare with a stuck zipper.

Patience
34

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

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

Patience
35

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

Patience
36

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

Joseph Addison

Patience
37

Patience and shuffle the cards.

Miguel de Cervantes

Patience
38

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

Jean de La Fontaine

Patience
39

Patience carries a lot of wait

Patience
40

Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Publilius Syrus

Patience
41

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Patience
42

Patience is counting down without blasting off

Patience
43

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

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Patience
44

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

Patience
45

Patience is the key to paradise.

Patience
46

Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.

Earl of Chesterfield

Patience
47

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength

Charles Caleb Colton

Patience
48

Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow -- that is patience.

Patience
49

Patience means self-suffering.

Mahatma Gandhi

Patience
50

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will be powerless to vex your mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

Patience
51

Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Patience
52

Patience will achieve more than force.

Edmund Burke

Patience
53

Patience. A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.

Ambrose Bierce

Patience
54

Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Patience
55

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

Thomas Hardy

Patience
56

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; she requires the hand of time.

Voltaire

Patience
57

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

Patience
58

Rome was not built in a day.

Patience
59

Slow and steady wins the race.

Aesop

Patience
60

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

William Shakespeare

Patience
61

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.

Arnold H. Glasgow

Patience
62

The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Patience
63

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach-waiting for a gift from the sea.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Patience
64

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

Epictetus

Patience
65

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

Joseph Roux

Patience
66

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 Bruyère

Patience
67

They also serve who only stand and wait.

John Milton

Patience
68

Those who desire to become rich, desire it at once.

Juvenal

Patience
69

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

William Shakespeare

Patience
70

To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success.

Joseph de Maistre

Patience
71

Who can be patient in extremes?

William Shakespeare

Patience
72

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

Francis Bacon

Patience
73

With close-lipped Patience for our only friend, Sad Patience, too near neighbor to Despair.

Matthew Arnold

Patience
74

Work and wait, work and wait is what God says to us in creation.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

Patience
75

You will conquer by patience.

Patience

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"Learn what can, and cannot, be asked from destiny.”

A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.

A patient man is one who can put up with himself.

Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

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

All things come round to him who will but wait.

All things come to him who waits -- provided he knows what he is waiting for.

Beware the fury of a patient man.

Dios tarda pero no olvida -- God delays but doesn't forget.

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.

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them -- every day begin the task anew -

Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

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

I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.

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

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.

If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.

If you are tempted to lose patience with your fellowman; stop and think how patient God has been with you.

If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big.

In all evils which admits a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes the time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might remove the cause.

It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.

Like farmers we need to learn that we cannot sow and reap the same day.

Little by little, through patience and repeated effort, the mind will become stilled in the Self.

Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

My son, observe the postage stamp! Its usefulness depends upon its ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.

Nothing great 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.

Of all the things that tax a man's patience, there's nothing to compare with a stuck zipper.

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

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

Patience and shuffle the cards.

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

Patience carries a lot of wait

Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Patience is counting down without blasting off

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

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

Patience is the key to paradise.

Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength

Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow -- that is patience.

Patience means self-suffering.

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will be powerless to vex your mind.

Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Patience will achieve more than force.

Patience. A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.

Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; she requires the hand of time.

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

Rome was not built in a day.

Slow and steady wins the race.

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

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.

The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach-waiting for a gift from the sea.

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

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

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.

They also serve who only stand and wait.

Those who desire to become rich, desire it at once.

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

To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success.

Who can be patient in extremes?

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

With close-lipped Patience for our only friend, Sad Patience, too near neighbor to Despair.

Work and wait, work and wait is what God says to us in creation.

You will conquer by patience.