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Patience is the art of concealing your impatience. Guy Kawasaki
Who can be patient in such extremes? William Shakespeare, Richard Duke of York I i 216, Queen Margaret to King et al
I will with patience hear, and find a time
Both meet to hear and answer such high things.
Till then, my noble friend, chew upon this. William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar I ii 169
How poor are they that ha’ not patience!
What wound did ever heal but by degrees? William Shakespeare, Othello II iii 360-361, Iago
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have for instance. Franklin P Jones
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. Victor Hugo
‘Patience protects me from insults.’ Inside The Mind of Leonardo starring Peter Capaldi, Sky Arts 2013
All my patience has gone into my work, leaving none for my life. Lucian Freud
Patience is a virtue. Late 14th century proverb
Patience is the key to contentment. Muhammad, attributions & variations
Endurance is patience concentrated. Thomas Carlyle
Must I at length the Sword of Justice draw?
Oh curst Effects of necessary Law!
How ill my Fear they by my Mercy scan,
Beware the Fury of a Patient Man. John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel
Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength. Charles Caleb Colton
It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness. George Santayana, The Life of Reason, 1905
Our patience will achieve more than our force. Edmund Burke
The Fates have given mankind a patient soul. Homer, The Illiad
Patient continuance in well doing. Romans 2:7
Let patience have her perfect work. James 1:4
Ye have heard of the patience of Job. James 5:11
Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience. Comte de Buffon
Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting. Joyce Meyer
Patience is the best remedy for every trouble. Plautus
Patience is a conquering virtue. Geoffrey Chaucer
He that can have patience can have what he will. Benjamin Franklin
It is very strange that the years teach us patience – that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting. Elizabeth Taylor, A Wreath of Roses
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. Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
Patience is a nobler motion than any deed. C A Bartol, Radical Problemsm, 1872
Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity. Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles
Patience makes lighter
What sorrow may not heal. Horace
Or arm th’ obdured breast
With stubborn patience as with triple steel. John Milton, Paradise Lost
I worked with patience which means almost power. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh III:205
And I must bear
What is ordained with patience, being aware
Necessity doth front the universe
With an invincible gesture. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Prometheus Bound
But there are times when patience proves at fault. Robert Browning, Paracelsus
Patience, when too often outraged, is converted into madness. Syrus, Maxims 289
It is easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient. George Eliot
Beware the wrath of a patient adversary. John C Calhoun