229 private quotes tagged patience

“Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.” — Ambrose Bierce

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“Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.” — Victor Hugo

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“To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.” — Thomas Aquinas

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“Abused patience turns to fury.” — Thomas Fuller

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“How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?” — William Shakespeare

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“Our patience will achieve more than our force.” — Edmund Burke

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“Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.” — Carl Jung

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“The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.” — George Washington

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“God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.” — Richard Cecil

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“Republican patience with how unionism deals with the political institutions, and with key issues like equality and human rights, will be tested because, obviously, there will be a battle a day on these matters. So lets face up to all of this with our eyes wide open.” — Gerry Adams

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“We had great faith that with patience, understanding, and education, that my family and I could be helpful in changing their minds and attitudes around.” — Ryan White

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“There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.” — Abu Bakr

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“I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.” — Jesse Jackson

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“I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul.” — Dick Dale

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“You have to respect your parents. They are giving you an at-bat. If you're an entrepreneur and go into the family business, you want to grow fast. Patience is important. But respect the other party... My dad and I pulled it off because we really respect each other.” — Gary Vaynerchuk

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“I think the Iraqi people have shown extraordinary patience and courage in the last few months. They have really put a political system on the way to success, to a real democracy here.” — Paul Bremer

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“A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.” — Moliere

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“We are telling the American people to have patience, courage, resolve and determination.” — Muammar al-Gaddafi

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“Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.” — James Russell Lowell

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“Beauty, unlike the rest of the gifts handed out at birth, does not require dedication, patience and hard work to pay off. But it's also the only gift that does not keep on giving.” — Paulina Porizkova

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“Beware of him that is slow to anger for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.” — Francis Quarles

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“One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.” — Carl Hiaasen

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“There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.” — Sivananda

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“I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves.” — Major Taylor

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“A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience.” — Stanley Baldwin

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