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Patience Quotes


"Never judge badly a rage of a very patient heart who had let go many repetitive offenses from insufferable bastards."


"If you wait, you can have what you want."


"Chew off a little every day, because it's hard to swallow a whole pie at once."


"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."


"Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment."


"But then one time, you track down an email address and you're near a computer with Internet access so you don't have that nice cushion and you type what you're feeling and press send before you have a chance to talk yourself out of it. And then you wait, and wait, and wait, and nothing comes back, so all those things you thought were so important to say, really, they weren't. They weren't worth saying at all."


"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."


"When the dark clouds of doubt, anger or worry begin to move upon you, steady yourself in the knowledge that in time, the storm will pass."



"If something doesn't work exactly right, or maybe needs some special treatment, you don't just throw it away. Everything can't be fully operational all the time. Sometimes, we need to have the patience to give something the little nudge it needs."


"For there was never yet philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently."


"To wait is to wisely resign myself to the fact that my 'timetable' is too often a 'table' with two legs that won't stand up no matter how much 'time' I give it."


"Be patient with yourself. The journey of life requires alot of patient, persistence and perseverance."


"Patience is to wait for the ice to melt instead of breaking it."


"Patience is a virtue not a vice."


"You must give him time,' said her grandmother;'and you must be content not to be believed for a while. It is very hard to bear; but I have had to bear it, and shall have to bear it yet. I will take care of what Curdie thinks of you in the end. You must let him go now."


"Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait are people who carry restlessness around with them."


"The forefront is not the arena of winners, stay where you are, wherever you are, when its your time, you'll speed off like a psycopath."


"It is necessary ... to yield to the storm, purchase a peace, and wait patiently for better times."



"What's going on?" I asked when he finished."I'll let you know soon. For now, we have to wait.""Great. My favorite thing to do."


"You wait and wait, you get used to waiting. But when your time comes, you must not miss it."


"Some patient dogs had waited a long time for the fatest bone to come, but the impatient had gone to scavenge for the little it could see."



"Observe her when she has some knitting, or some other woman's work in hand, and sits the image of peace, calmly intent on her needles and her silk, some discussion meantime going on around her, in the course of which peculiarities of character are being developed, or important interests canvassed; she takes no part in int; her humble, feminine mind is wholl with her knitting; none of her features move; she neither presumes to smile approval, nor frown disapprobation; her little hands assiduously ply their unpretending task; if she can only get this purse finished, or this bonnet-grec completed, it is enough for her."



"If a train is two minutes late in leaving, one will become impatient, 'when will the train leave, when will it leave?' This world is not worth getting impatient restless about."


"Church leaders may get disappointed in ministry if they do not know God's time."


"If kindness is beauty, patience is disarming elegance."


"Be patient, resentment will always reveal itself."


"Don't be in a hurry in life. The sacred-time determines the due events."


"Sometimes a goal in life we are striving for may seem dim or unreachable. Direction has suddenly changed so fast we're left with aimless thoughts and confusion. Don't be troubled! You've proved to yourself you have the drive. Your new direction will come with patience. Each of us need time to rest our heart and mind before we reach the next mountain."


"Patience triumphs over everything."


"If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment."
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