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Talent is a long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation.

I have patience in all things – as far as the antechamber.

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Gustave FlaubertFlaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.

Tengo had a gift for such work. He was a born technician, possessing both the intense concentration ...

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I have a lot more patience for others than I have for myself, and I am much better at bringing out t...

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This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don't get impatient. Even if things are so tangled ...

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For many years, I tried to make New Year's resolutions. I made lists and shot for great heights: I w...

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Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands...

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Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protr...

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It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that act...

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Why?' says the boy.'Why? Because staying alive is more important than anything else.''Why is staying...

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Patience is important for a man, vital for a leader

She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to...

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Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.

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

Rowl reminded himself that cats were eternally patient, and that he would not simply explode if he d...

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Jim ButcherThe Aeronaut's Windlass

We best learn patience by practicing it.

Must I at length the Sword of Justice draw?Oh curst Effects of necessary Law!How ill my Fear they by...

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John DrydenAbsalom and Achitophel

I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and hone...

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Impatience is a form of unbelief. It's what we begin to feel when we start to doubt the wisdom of Go...

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It was a costly triumph. But God’s values are not so easily reckoned. If God had simply terminated S...

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Impatience is a form of unbelief. It's what we begin to feel when we start to doubt the wisdom of Go...

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It was a costly triumph. But God’s values are not so easily reckoned. If God had simply terminated S...

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Impatience is a form of unbelief. It's what we begin to feel when we start to doubt the wisdom of Go...

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It was a costly triumph. But God’s values are not so easily reckoned. If God had simply terminated S...

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Impatience is a form of unbelief. It's what we begin to feel when we start to doubt the wisdom of Go...

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It was a costly triumph. But God’s values are not so easily reckoned. If God had simply terminated S...

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Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

Simply put, she was the one who had to put up with me. That she did so with love and patience and en...

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Happiness, honor, and great estate,For those who patiently work and wait.

I worry that business leaders are more interested in material gain than they are in having the patie...

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We spend our lives waiting for our book and it never comes.

In all controversies, it is better to wait the decisions of time, which are slow and sure, than to t...

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Time and time again one has seen, even in people not particularly given to reflection, that the best...

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José SaramagoThe Gospel According to Jesus Christ

I love to close my eyes a moment and think of the land outside, white under the mingled snow and moo...

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Simplicity, patience, compassion.These three are your greatest treasures.Simple in actions and thoug...

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Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Have the patience to wait! Be still and ...

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Patience is a virtue, but there comes a moment when you must stop being patient and take the day by ...

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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is ha...

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The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.

everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait . . . there is nothing stronger than these two...

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Leo TolstoyWar and Peace

No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.

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Lewis CarrollAlice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

You're enough to try the patience of an oyster!

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Lewis CarrollAlice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.

Be worthy love, and love will come.

Good travels at a snail's pace. Those who want to do good are not selfish, they are not in a hurry, ...

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Mahatma GandhiThe Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them.

Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Wat...

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

Have patience with the quarrelsomeness of the stupid. It is not easy to comprehend that one does not...

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I could have married again while I was still young. A congregation likes to have a married minister,...

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Those speak foolishly who ascribe their anger or their impatience to such as offend them or to tribu...

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I will simply express my strong belief, that that point of self-education which consists in teaching...

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

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Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

We applaud patience, but prefer it to be a virtue that others possess.

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N.T. WrightAfter You Believe: Why Christian Character Matters

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.

A patient willingness to defer dividends is a hallmark of individual maturity.

There is also a dimension of patience which links it to a special reverence for life. Patience is a ...

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Perfect love is perfectly patient.

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Neal A. MaxwellAll These Things Shall Give Thee Experience

Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.

Watch out, brother,' his professor had told him more than once, 'you have talent; it would be a sin ...

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Man hurries, God does not. That is why man's works are uncertain and maimed, while God's are flawles...

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A novelist is essentially a person who covers distance through his patience, slowly, like an ant. A ...

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Miro, I'm so sorry. I always felt such pity for you humans because you could only think of one thing...

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It was the waiting and watching that cost the most. For during that time he had to endure.

In our lives we know joy, anger, sorrow, and a hundred other emotions, but these emotions altogether...

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You cannot have a moral holiday and remain moral, nor can you have a spiritual holiday and remain sp...

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Oswald ChambersMy Utmost for His Highest

Sólo con una ardiente paciencia conquistaremos la espléndida ciudad que dará luz, justicia y dignida...

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Pablo NerudaToward the Splendid City: Nobel Lecture

But I am a patient man. I can wait for hours in the rain.

Patience and propriety. It was the only graceful thing to do.

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Patrick RothfussThe Slow Regard of Silent Things

But for half a minute she wished it was a different sort of day, even though she knew that nothing g...

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Patrick RothfussThe Slow Regard of Silent Things

It exhasperated her, but she knew better than to force the world to her desire.

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Patrick RothfussThe Slow Regard of Silent Things

She was not vain enough to work her will against the world. But she could use the things the world h...

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Patrick RothfussThe Slow Regard of Silent Things

Oh yes. It was well worth it, doing things the proper way.

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Patrick RothfussThe Slow Regard of Silent Things

She shelled the nuts and toasted them, jiggling them about in the pan. She sprinkled them with salt ...

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Patrick RothfussThe Slow Regard of Silent Things

There's no clear water from a muddy well. All you can do is let the silt settle until the water clea...

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Why is patience so important?""Because it makes us pay attention.

What made you fall in love with a prostitute?'I didn't understand it myself at the time. But I've th...

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So he could not be hasty or impatient. If he pushed forward impulsively, he would fail to see the si...

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The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the co...

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Above all, trust in the slow work of God.We are quite naturally impatient in everything to reach the...

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Speed will follow when the mechanism of the movements is more assured.

Have patience with everything unresolved in you heart and try to love the questions themselves. It i...

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Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Opennes...

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I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the question...

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Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themsel...

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so much is happening now; you must be patient like someone who is sick, and confident like someone w...

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And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far into the futu...

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Wait long enough and people will surprise and impress you.

God is never in a hurry, but he is always on time.

Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire. The reality of you...

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Robert M. PirsigZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

We need patient people who are able to endure the toughest disciplines.

If people who are in a difficulty will only do the first little reasonable thing which they can clea...

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If people who are in a difficulty will only do the first little reasonable thing which they can clea...

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If people who are in a difficulty will only do the first little reasonable thing which they can clea...

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