“Humility is attentive patience.”
Topic
patience
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“As for goals, I don't set myself those anymore. I'm not one of these 'I must have achieved this and that by next year' kind of writers. I take things as they come and find that patience and persistence tend to win out in the end.”
“Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.”
“Patience is the support of weakness impatience the ruin of strength.”
“If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.”
“If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.”
“Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.”
“Bear patiently with a rival.”
“Beware the fury of a patient man.”
“Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.”
“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.”
“A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.”
“He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.”
“Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.”
“Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.”
“You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.”
“Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry.”
“Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.”
“Patience and time do more than strength or passion.”
“Patience is the companion of wisdom.”
“It is strange that the years teach us patience that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.”
“I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory.”
“Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.”
“Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.”