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Patience Quotes
"Major improvements don't happen over night. Their are many moments inching towards improvement. The difference between those who make major improvements in their lives are the ones who embrace patience and wait through the darkness as long as it takes."
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"Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while."
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"Patience is the training in abiding with the restlessness of our energy and letting things evolve at their own speed."
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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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"I beg you, 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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"Tolerance! The virtue that makes one bite his tongue so that he can tear out his hair."
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"Be patient with yourself. The journey of life requires alot of patient, persistence and perseverance."
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"I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient."
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"These rotary dials were like meditation, they forced you to slow down and concentrate. If you polled the next number too soon, you had to start over from the top."
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"When people wind you up, just remind them what happens to a piece of elastic."
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"You wait and wait, you get used to waiting. But when your time comes, you must not miss it."
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"It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you."
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"Patience can be bitter but her fruit is always sweet."
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"Be patient in life, knowing that there is a real possibility that the desired outcome could happen without your direct involvement."
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"Human beings can learn valuable lessons in conservation of necessary personal resources for accomplishing the fundamental tenants of life by observing a judiciously paced turtle determinedly and stealthily traversing the world."
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"Patience doesn't mean making a pact with the devil of denial, ignoring our emotions and aspirations. It means being wholeheartedly engaged in the process that's unfolding, rather than ripping open a budding flower or demanding a caterpillar hurry up and get that chrysalis stage over with."
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"Without delayed gratification, there is no endurance."
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"Patience is bitter, but bears a sweet fruit."
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"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."
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"My master wishes to see you," said the mounted man."When the planting's done," I said."Lord Barton is unaccustomed to waiting.""Then he should rejoice, for he'll learn something new today." I went back to the garden. Soon the servant left."
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"Until the stone becomes soft, it cannot attach itself to the wall."
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"It is necessary ... to yield to the storm, purchase a peace, and wait patiently for better times."
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"The enemy is the necessary condition for practicing patience."
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