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Patience Quotes


"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."


"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."


"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."


"Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second."


"Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while."


"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."


"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."


"I believe there's too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television."


"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."


"Roses do not bloom hurriedly; for beauty, like any masterpiece, takes time to blossom."



"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."


"It takes time to figure it out.Give yourself sometime.It took Abraham 100yrs."


"Until the stone becomes soft, it cannot attach itself to the wall."


"Don't be in a hurry to grasp everything. The mystery of life unfolds at its own pace."


"Walking to success is better than sprinting to failure."



"I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them."


"She would only let you know her, little by little ~ never giving too much away but willing to share the small parts that make up her life, she falls slowly like that ~ love isn't a maybe thing in her eyes & her heart is the prize, she knows her worth and she will withstand the wait."


"Life's most rewarding forms of being: Being patient, and, being yourself."


"If you chase a butterfly, it will escape; if you feed it, it will come."


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