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Patience Quotes


"There might not be a lot of people who can understand you and the way you think, don't lose your temper and don't get sad, because you are destined to mark a new path."


"Nurture a tree today, and it will provide you fruit tomorrow."


"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."


"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."


"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."


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


"He'd seen when she began to panic, but he hadn't offered comfort like other Doms or changed his plans. He'd just waited her out. She could hate him a little for that."



"Patience is underscored with forgiveness."


"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."


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


"Patience triumphs over everything."


"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."


"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."


"If you fish without proper bait, you will only catch disappointment."


"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!"


"I'd like to be more patient! I just want everything now. I've tried to meditate, but it's really hard for me to stay still. I'd like to try to force myself to do it, because everybody says how wonderful meditation is for you, but I can't shut my mind up. So patience and learning is the key."


"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."


"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."


"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."


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


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



"Don't lose heart if it's very difficult at times, everything will come out all right and nobody can in the beginning do as he wishes."


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



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


"There is a saying that, paper is more patient than man."
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