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Patience Quotes
"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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"It takes time to figure it out.Give yourself sometime.It took Abraham 100yrs."
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"Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous."
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"So it's been a slow process and it's taken some patience. That's why patients are called patients I think - patience is required."
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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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"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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"I know firsthand how agonizing waiting can be."
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"I believe there's too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television."
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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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"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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"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."
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"Life's most rewarding forms of being: Being patient, and, being yourself."
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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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"For six months I did what women do: I waited. This is what women are taught to be good at. It's said that a woman's life is merely preparation for the primal nine-month wait. Whatever the reason, they do it well. Sometimes they drink or bite their fingernails down to the wrist. They count stars and initials and wait: for something to happen, for something to pass, to change, to begin, to end."
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"I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them."
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"I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end."
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"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day."
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"Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while."
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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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"The best is always worth waiting for. And once you taste it, no other taste will do."
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"Waiting is an art that our impatient age has forgotten. It wants to break open the ripe fruit when it has hardly finished planting the shoot. But all too often the greedy eyes are only deceived; the fruit that seemed so precious is still green on the inside, and disrespected hands ungratefully toss aside what has so disappointed them."
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"Patience is not something that you keep, patience is something that you learn. How is patience learnt? By sitting with those who have patience and by observing those who have patience."
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"Mr. Right is coming, but he's in Africa and he's walking."
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"Until the stone becomes soft, it cannot attach itself to the wall."
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"I'm a pretty patient guy when it's something worth waiting for."
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"Strike a glass and it will not endure an instant. Simply do not strike it and it will endure a thousand years."
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