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Image of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A leaf that is destined to grow large is full of grooves and wrinkles at the start. Now if one has no patience and wants it smooth offhand like a willow leaf, there is trouble ahead.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Image of Benjamin Franklin
By diligence and patience, the mouse bit in two the cable.
- Benjamin Franklin
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Image of Benjamin Franklin
Don't halloo until you're out of the wood.
- Benjamin Franklin
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Image of Charlotte Perkins Gilman
There was a time when Patience ceased to be a virtue. It was long ago.
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Image of Criss Jami
I believe in evolution in the sense that a short-tempered man is the successor of a crybaby.
- Criss Jami
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Image of Margaret Fuller
Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet, and from it learn the all.
- Margaret Fuller
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Image of Criss Jami
Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.
- Criss Jami
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Image of Elizabeth Gilbert
You can butcher the sheep only once. But if you are careful, you can shear the sheep every year.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
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Image of Jane Austen
She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding.
- Jane Austen
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Image of J. G. Holland
There is no well-doing, no Godlike doing, that is not patient doing.
- J. G. Holland
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Image of Margaret Atwood
Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.
- Margaret Atwood
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Image of John Heywood
The more haste, the less speed.
- John Heywood
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Image of John Heywood
Don't put the cart before the horse.
- John Heywood
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Image of Carolyn Heilbrun
as the years go on a sense of deep patience comes over one; one seems to know the virtue of ripeness, and the danger of rushing events.
- Carolyn Heilbrun
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Image of Arthur Helps
It is in length of patience, endurance and forbearance that so much of what is good in mankind and womankind is shown.
- Arthur Helps
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Image of Homer
The fates have given mankind a patient soul.
- Homer
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Image of G. I. Gurdjieff
Patience is the mother of will.
- G. I. Gurdjieff
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Image of Margaret Atwood
Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress.
- Margaret Atwood
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Image of Marcus Aurelius
All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them.
- Marcus Aurelius
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Image of Franz Kafka
All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.
- Franz Kafka
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Image of Samuel Johnson
The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly upon unassisted genius and natural sagacity.
- Samuel Johnson
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Image of Thomas Huxley
It does not matter how many tumbles you have in this life, so long as you do not get dirty when you tumble; it is only the people who have to stop to be washed and made clean, who must necessarily lose the race. And I can assure you that there is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. You learn that which is of inestimable importance
- Thomas Huxley
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Image of Hazrat Inayat Khan
The first lesson to learn is to resign oneself to the little difficulties in life, not to hit out at everything one comes up against. If one were able to manage this one would not need to cultivate great power; even one's presence would be healing.
- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Image of Sarah Orne Jewett
There was a patient look on the old man's face, as if the world were a great mistake and he had nobody with whom to speak his own language or find companionship.
- Sarah Orne Jewett
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Image of Samuel Johnson
To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.
- Samuel Johnson
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Image of Samuel Johnson
For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill.
- Samuel Johnson
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Image of Samuel Johnson
In all evils which admit a remedy, impatience is to be avoided, because it wastes that time and attention in complaints, that, if properly applied might remove the cause.
- Samuel Johnson
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Image of Thomas a Kempis
Dispose thyself to patience rather than to comfort, and to the bearing of the cross rather than to gladness.
- Thomas a Kempis
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Image of Juvenal
Those who desire to become rich, desire it at once.
- Juvenal
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Image of Samuel Johnson
Patience and submission are very carefully to be distinguished from cowardice and indolence. We are not to repine, but we may lawfully struggle; for the calamities of life, like the necessities of Nature, are calls to labor and diligence.
- Samuel Johnson
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Image of Franz Kafka
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
- Franz Kafka
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Image of Abraham Lincoln
We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.
- Abraham Lincoln
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Image of Paul Krugman
The trouble with poverty, as an issue, is that it has basically exhausted the patience of the general public.
- Paul Krugman
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Image of Barbara Kingsolver
Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.
- Barbara Kingsolver
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Image of D. H. Lawrence
She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.
- D. H. Lawrence
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Image of Abraham Lincoln
Never change horses in midstream.
- Abraham Lincoln
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Image of Bruce Lee
The past is an illusion. You must learn to live in the present and accept yourself for what you are now. What you lack in flexibility and agility you must make up with knowledge and constant practice.
- Bruce Lee
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Image of Johann Kaspar Lavater
He surely is most in need of another's patience, who has none of his own.
- Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Image of Anne Lamott
Try looking at your mind as a wayward puppy that you are trying to paper train. You don't drop-kick a puppy into the neighbor's yard every time it piddles on the floor. You just keep bringing it back to the newspaper.
- Anne Lamott
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Image of Dalai Lama
The enemy is the necessary condition for practicing patience.
- Dalai Lama
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Image of Martin Luther
Those speak foolishly who ascribe their anger or their impatience to such as offend them or to tribulation. Tribulation does not make people impatient, but proves that they are impatient. So everyone may learn from tribulation how his heart is constituted.
- Martin Luther
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Image of Herman Melville
Great towers take time to construct.
- Herman Melville
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Image of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Rule by patience, Laughing Water!
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Image of Allan Lokos
We must accept the reality that the causes of impatience travel a two-way street.
- Allan Lokos
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Image of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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