Patience neighbored respect for authority in Doug’s personal list of overrated virtues.
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.
Our patience wore rather thin. Visitors do tend to chafe one, though impeccable as friends.
If you are wholly perplexed and in straits, have patience, for patience is the key to joy.
Any artwork needs time and patience and needs above all a quiet mind.
Botany is the school for patience, and it’s amateurs learn resignation from daily disappointments.
Patience is the virtue of a beast
That trots beneath his burden and is quiet.
"Understanding another culture requires patience with its concepts before judging them."
Poor little foal of an oppressèd race!
I love the languid patience of thy face.
Boredom is fear's patience. Fear doesn't want to exaggerate.
Time is still the best critic, and patience the best teacher.