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Patience Quotes
"Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others."
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"Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest."
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"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe."
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"The sun does not rise abruptly, but perseveres until it rules the sky."
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"Patience is the best remedy for every trouble."
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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 the best in others than in myself. That's just the kind of person I am. I'm the scratchy stuff on the side of the matchbox."
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"Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown."
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"A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century."
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"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."
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"I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end."
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"It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness."
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"I do not know why there is this difference, but I am sure that God keeps no one waiting unless He sees that it is good for him to wait. When you do enter your room, you will find that the long wait has done you some kind of good which you would not have had otherwise. But you must regard it as waiting, not as camping. You must keep on praying for light: and of course, even in the hall, you must begin trying to obey the rules which are common to the whole house. And above all you must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best by its paint and paneling."
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"You know the minute you stop thinking about it, it'll happen."
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"One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time."
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"He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience."
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"Patience's design flaw became obvious for the first time in my life: the outcome is decided not during the course of play but when the cards are shuffled, before the game even begins. How pointless is that?"
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"But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last."
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"He that lives upon hope will die fasting."
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"Stop a bit and think it over. There do be some knots mighty aisy to tie but the untying is a cat of a different brade."
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"All you have to do is wait. Sit tight and wait for the right moment. Not try to change anything by force, just watch the drift of things. Make an effort to cast a fair eye on everything. If you do that, you just naturally know what to do. But everyone's always too busy. They're too talented, their schedules are too full. They're too interested in themselves to think about what's fair."
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"When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run."
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"You are so young, so much before all beginning, and I would like to beg you, dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer."
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"Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous."
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"Patience isn't simply waiting, it is caring enough about the situation and those involved to remain calm and courteous throughout the wait."
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"Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily."
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"You don't have to remind a flower when its time to bloom is near, it has been preparing for it all of its life."
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