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patience

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Patience is the best medicine.

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

Patience is the support of weakness impatience the ruin of strength.

Patience means restraining one's inclinations.

Hope is patience with the lamp lit.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

He preacheth patience that never knew pain.

Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.

Abused patience turns to fury.

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.

The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience.

The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.

All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.

All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.

Humility is attentive patience.

Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Lincoln because he was all the time pardoning men who ought to be shot.

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance.

Genius is eternal patience.

No, I will be the pattern of all patience I will say nothing.

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.

Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.

Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry.

Beware the fury of a patient man.

I have all the patience in the world about Sirens. For me it's not a Grateful Dead project, it's a Me project.

Patience is the art of hoping.

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.

Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness it teaches industry and thrift above all it teaches entire trust.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.

Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

The principle part of faith is patience.

Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.

Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice.