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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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"We cannot learn real patience and tolerance from a guru or a friend. They can be practiced only when we come in contact with someone who creates unpleasant experiences."
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"He that lives upon hope will die fasting."
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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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"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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"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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"One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time."
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"Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second."
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"You know the minute you stop thinking about it, it'll happen."
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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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"Patience is the best remedy for every trouble."
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"It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness."
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"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer."
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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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"No changing of place at a hundred miles an hour will make us one whit stronger, or happier, or wiser. There was always more in the world than man could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast. The really precious things are thought and sight, not pace. It does a bullet no good to go fast; and a man, if he be truly a man, no harm to go slow; for his glory is not at all in going, but in being."
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"Things take the time they take.Don't worry.How many roads did St. Augustine follow before he became St. Augustine?"
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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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"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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"The sun does not rise abruptly, but perseveres until it rules the sky."
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"Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown."
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"He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience."
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"It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet."
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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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"Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous."
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"Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been obliged to listen to and patiently to bear."
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