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Patience Quotes

Counting entries, Shakespeare comes first, followed by Swami Vivekananda, Ali, Longfellow and James Richardson. Two sourced lines cover the territory. Tolstoy’s War and Peace (1865) says everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait; Bierce, in 1911, defines patience as a minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.

Flagged: “Patience is a remedy for every sorrow,” credited to Publilius Syrus; a remark about not having the patience to check out what is happening in music, theater and science, credited to Jimi Hendrix, both disputed; and a line about the marvel of all history being the patience with which people submit to burdens, credited to George Washington and marked misattributed.

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If one can acquire the patience of old processes in making pictures, then one can make extraordinary images.

Iké Udé

One lesson that maybe one took from the Pirates team is patience.

Fortune Makaringe

It is important to not panic in race and show patience.

Nijel Amos

There are definitely many lessons that I have learnt and still learning but the biggest lessons was patience and self-confidence.

Saarah Smith

To believe in yourself and to have patience in what the Almighty has planned is one of the best lessons you’ll receive.

Saarah Smith

The advice I would give young aspiring actors is to be prepared to put the work in and have patience.”

Faithe Herman

My lord shall never rest:
I'll watch him, tame and talk him out of patience:
His bed shall seem a school, his board a shrift.

William Shakespeare Othello (1603)

Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience.

Albert Camus A Happy Death (written 1936-38 (1971)

Weapons do not make peace. Men make peace. And peace comes not through strength alone, but through wisdom and patience and restraint.

Lyndon B. Johnson Democratic National Convention (1964)

I had to learn patience and to think outside the box. I was given a lot of nicknames like ‘Iron Lady’, ‘Hard-wired electronics’, etc.

Adenike Osofisan

Nothing good comes easy. To build a successful business, it takes a lot of patience and dedication.

Florence Seriki

It all depends on the new employee... maybe patience is key.

Corinne Chevallier

Though my short stories are the more readable, my novels do have more to say; and they will, if anyone has the patience for it, repay a rereading.

R. A. Lafferty

I didn't want to get into a political debate with him, but my patience was running thin...My shorts were getting a little tight.

Arlen Specter

My lord, our immortal philosopher Kagemni, vizier to King Huni, says that patience is man's refuge in times of despair, and his armor against misfortunes.

Naguib Mahfouz Khufu's Wisdom (1939)

When giving advice, do so kindly. Do it sincerely with patience. Don't do it to show that you are more intelligent or better than others.

Ismail ibn Musa Menk

Three years ago by a little reflection and patience they could have had a hundred years of peace and prosperity, but they preferred war; very well.

William Tecumseh Sherman Letter to R.M. Sawyer (1864)

Prison itself is a tremendous education in the need for patience and perseverance. It is above all a test of one's commitment.

Nelson Mandela Long Walk to Freedom (1995)

Are great things ever done smoothly? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.

Swami Vivekananda

Spirit, Patience, Gentleness,
All that can adorn and bless
Art thou — let deeds, not words, express
Thine exceeding loveliness.

Percy Bysshe Shelley The Masque of Anarchy (1819)

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