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Beware the fury of a patient man.
JOHN DRYDEN, Absalom and Achitophel
Patience is moral elasticity.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY, Keystones of Thought
Patience wins the race.
BERNARD BARTON, Bruce and the Spider
Patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.
AMBROSE BIERCE, The Devil's Dictionary
- Endurance is the crowning quality,
- And patience all the passion of great hearts.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, Columbus
Patience is stronger than force.
An invulnerable armor is patience.
GAUTAMA BUDDHA, The Gospel of Buddha
Patience is the analogue of God's serenity.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY, Keystones of Thought
Patience will achieve more than force.
EDMUND BURKE, Reflections on the Revolution in France
The strongest of all warriors are these two -- Time and Patience.
LEO TOLSTOY, War and Peace
It's easy to find reasons why other folks should be patient.
There is no such thing as preaching patience into people, unless the sermon is so long that they have to practice it while they hear. No man can learn patience except by going out into the hurlyburly world, and taking life just as it blows. Patience is but lying to, and riding out the gale.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Life Thoughts
The bigger the dam of patience, the worse the flood when the dam breaks.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY, Keystones of Thought
The hands of patience never tire.
Patience has tender feet.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY, Keystones of Thought
Patience is no small, fell-good personal quality. It is at the heart of diplomacy and civility, lawfulness and civil order. Without it, people can't work together and society can't function at all. With it, we create the possibility of peace between people and between nations.
MARY JANE RYAN, The Power of Patience
Patience is the art of hoping.
LUC DE VAUVENARGUES, Reflections and Maxims
Unless patience is founded on hope, it stagnates.
Patience is the ballast of the soul, that will keep it from rolling and tumbling in the greatest storms: and he, that will venture out without this to make him sail even and steady will certainly make shipwreck, and drown himself; first, in the cares and sorrows of this world; and, then, in perdition.
EZEKIEL HOPKINS, Death Disarm'd of Its Sting
Patience is a virile virtue; it does not mean lying down under affliction, but standing up under it and marching on.
WALTER LOWRIE, The Church Standard, Dec. 8, 1906
Patience is woven into the web of the universe because this universe reflects--in dim and fractured ways--the divine patience of its creator.
SAMUEL WELLS, "Good Earth," Christian Ethics
Patience is sorrow's salve.
CHARLES CHURCHILL, The Prophecy of Famine
Patience is the homely background on which most of the brilliant achievements are woven in beautiful harmony.
ALLYN KING FOSTER, Cartoons in Character
He who wanteth patience in this world is like a man who standeth trembling in the field without his armor, because every one can strike him, and he can strike none: so the least push of pain, or loss or disgrace, doth trouble that man more which hath not the skill to suffer than twenty trials can move him which is armed with patience, like a golden shield in his hand, to break the stroke of every cross, and save the heart though the body suffer; for, while the heart is whole, all is well.
HENRY SMITH, attributed, Six Thousand Illustrations of Moral and Religious Truths
He that can have patience can have what he will.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Poor Richard's Almanack, June 1736
I compare patience to the most precious thing that the earth produces, to a jewel. Pressed by sand and rocks, it reposes in the dark lap of earth. Though no ray of light comes near it, it is radiant with imperishable beauty, a child of the celestial light, which it preserves faithfully. Thus its brightness remains even in the deep night; but when liberated from the dark prison, it forms, united to gold, the distinguishing mark and ornament of glory--the ring, the sceptre, and the crown.... Her end reward is the crown of life.
FRIEDRICH ADOLF KRUMMACHER, The Parables
Patience is the courage of virtue.
HENRI BERNARDIN DE SAINT-PIERRE, Paul and Virginia
Patience is cultivated in the storms of your own heart and mind.
CHRISTINA FELDMAN, Compassion
He who endures with patience is a conqueror.
Patience is the guardian of faith, the preserver of peace, the cherisher of love, the teacher of humility; Patience governs the flesh, strengthens the spirit, sweetens the temper, stifles anger, extinguishes envy, subdues pride; she bridles the tongue, refrains the hand, tramples upon temptations, endures persecutions, consummates martyrdom; Patience produces unity in the church, loyalty in the State, harmony in families and societies; she comforts the poor and moderates the rich; she makes us humble in prosperity, cheerful in adversity, unmoved by calumny and reproach; she teaches us to forgive those who have injured us, and to be the first in asking forgiveness of those whom we have injured; she delights the faithful, and invites the unbelieving; she adorns the woman, and approves the man; is loved in a child, praised in a young man, admired in an old man; she is beautiful in either sex and every age. Behold her appearance and her attire! Her countenance is calm and serene as the face of heaven unspotted by the shadow of a cloud; and no wrinkle of grief or anger is seen in her forehead. Her eyes are as the eyes of doves for meekness, and on her eyebrows sit cheerfulness and joy. Her mouth is lovely in silence; her complexion and color that of innocence and security; while, like the virgin, the daughter of Sion, she shakes her head at the adversary, despising, and laughing him to scorn. She is clothed in the robes of the martyrs, and in her hand she holds a sceptre in the form of a cross. She rides not in the whirlwind and stormy tempest of passion, but her throne is the humble and contrite heart, and her kingdom is the kingdom of peace.
BISHOP HORNE, Discourses on Several Subjects and Occasions
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
Patience is that calm and unruffled temper with which a good man bears the evils of life.
JOHN ROBINSON, A Theological, Biblical, and Ecclesiastical Dictionary
We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, speech, Apr. 11, 1865
Be patient toward all men.
At the bottom of patience is Heaven.
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