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Patience Quotes
"Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others."
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"The sun does not rise abruptly, but perseveres until it rules the sky."
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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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"You know the minute you stop thinking about it, it'll happen."
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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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"I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown."
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"Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while."
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"Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest."
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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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"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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"He that lives upon hope will die fasting."
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"There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience."
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"Roses do not bloom hurriedly; for beauty, like any masterpiece, takes time to blossom."
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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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"Patience is the best remedy for every trouble."
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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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