PATIENCE QUOTES III
quotations about patience
The gods have given unyielding patience as a medicine for incurable evils.
ARCHILOCHUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
Patience is like acceptance. One cannot push the natural unfolding of experience and change. Patience involves opening up to experience in every moment as it arises and giving our minds the space to be aware of the experience.
MALCOLM HUXTER
Healing the Heart and Mind with Mindfulness
He who wanteth patience is like a man who standeth trembling in the field without his armor, because everyone can strike him, and he can strike none.
HORACE SMITH
attributed, Day's Collacon
Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement.
VERA NAZARIAN
The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
Patience is not merely waiting or code for inaction. It builds on and appreciates each step of progress.
EDITORIAL BOARD
The Christian Science Monitor, March 30, 2016
I hate patience. Slows everything down.
J. D. ROBB
Witness in Death
Patience is cultivated in the storms of your own heart and mind.
CHRISTINA FELDMAN
Compassion
Patience is an important mechanism for the renewal of our strength.
ABDUL K. SESAY
Remedies for Positive Living
Patience is God's nature.
TERTULLIAN
Of Patience
Patience is the analogue of God's serenity.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
Patience is a plaister for all sores.
PERSIAN PROVERB
We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
his last speech, delivered in response to a serenade at the White House, April 11, 1865
Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
The Moral Sayings of Publilius Syrus
Patience is the ability to maintain self-control over the impulse that rises suddenly when something disagreeable happens. It is not just disregard of or indifference to life's daily irritations or upsetting incidents--it's a real control of self, of one's feelings and impulses.
GARY RYAN BLAIR
Everything Counts
The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.
HORACE BUSHNELL
The New Life
Beware the fury of a patient man.
JOHN DRYDEN
Absalom and Achitophel
Patience has tender feet.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
Patience is, therefore, the faculty of enduring a painful sensation, and yet looking confidently and steadily to the period when that sensation shall cease.
WILLIAM PINNOCK
The Guide to Knowledge
Patience! Patience! The world is a vast and ghastly intricacy of mechanism, and one has to be very wary, not to get mangled by it.
D. H. LAWRENCE
Lady Chatterley's Lover
We increase our losses ourselves, and club with fortune to undo us, when with them we lose our patience, too; as infants that, being robbed of some of their baubles, throw away the rest in childish anger.
WILLIAM WYCHERLEY
attributed, Day's Collacon