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Patience Quotes



"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."



"Patience is bitter, but bears a sweet fruit."


"You're frustrated because you keep waiting for the blooming of flowers of which you have yet to sow the seeds."



"Waiting for anyone is a cause for a tremendously bad life ahead. When the electricity is gone and you wait for it, that is considered as artadhyan (mournful meditation). Twenty years worth of effort gets washed away in waiting for half an hour. In such situations, you simply have to take an adjustment."


"Wait and see the steps you should or should not have taken, and you shall understand patience and impatience better!"


"Ignore the people who advise you patience! There is no time for patience! Those who are patient for many years about anything are mad!"


"Be patient in affliction."


"A distant love that waits to be together, is by far the most difficult relationship. It's like lighting a candle, and adoring the long flame and robust glow. Until time sets in like wax, overflowing deeper and deeper into the wick, leaving a sparse flame struggling to live. This is where most distant relationships fade, with the wax smothering the flame. This kind of relationship takes patience, hope, unconditional love, trust and strength, all centered around God. If the flame endures to the end, and the two come together, only then will it feel as if the candle was tipped and all the wax came pouring out, when the flame is revived, long and glowing again."


"It is not a vice or a show of weakness when you live by the principle of delay gratification."


"Patience isn't tested when it is self-imposed and the duration is self-regulated. Patience is hardly tested when the outcome means little to you. However, when circumstances beyond your control force you to wait with baited breath knowing the outcome will affect your life substantially, that is the true test of patience. It is a cage inside a burning building where every exit is blocked by angels calmly advising you to wait a moment longer. Your choice is to either trust their words or madly claw through them."


"Don't be in a hurry. Everything arise in the due time."


"A flower that grows in the shade of another blooms slowly."


"Patience is underscored with forgiveness."


"Patience is real self-mastery."


"Have patience or be a patient. Have patience in preparatory moments or be a patient after preparatory moments."


"The horses have stoppedtheir clippity-clop,but feet are too slowfor where I must go.So here I shall stayuntil light of daywhen clippity-clopgets my team underway."


"Sometimes it is best to stand back from conflict and allow other elements in someone's life to do the hard work for you."


"Tolerance! The virtue that makes one bite his tongue so that he can tear out his hair."
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