Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Patience - Key Word for Today

I decided to think about keywords that can help in our daily lives and this is a big one for me. I need to be more patient. I found a site where I can put the keyword I am thinking about and get quotes from other people, below are some of them, today it's all about patience.

Patience Definition
He that can have patience can have what he will.
Benjamin Franklin

Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Saint Augustine

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
Harriet Tubman


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

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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.
Mohandas Gandhi

You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
Stanislaw Lec

The greatest power is often simple patience.
E. Joseph Cossman

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.
Elbert Hubbard

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?
Paul Sweeney

Everything is out there if you know how to find it, and have the patience. I don't and haven't, but that's my problem.
Tom Holt

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
John Burroughs

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
Carl Jung

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
Lao Tzu

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

Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
Ambrose Bierce

Endurance is patience concentrated.
Thomas Carlyle

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

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.
Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
Joseph Addison

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

Genius is eternal patience.
Michelangelo

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

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
Leo Tolstoy

The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.
Ralph Marston

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

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
John Ruskin

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

Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Edmund Burke

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

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.
Charlie Chaplin

Patience will achieve more than force.
Edmund Burke

Abused patience turns to fury.
Thomas Fuller

I believe there's too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.
Bob Woodward

It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
Elizabeth Taylor

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.
May Sarton

You have to find the peace and patience within yourself to be a model and an example to others and not judge.
Judith Light

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.
Arnold H. Glasow

If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.
Ilie Nastase

Patience is the best medicine.
John Florio

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

Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.
Eknath Easwaran

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.
Cleveland Amory

As I pass it, I feel as if I saw a dear old mother, sweet in her weakness, trembling at the approach of her dissolution, but not appealing to me against the inevitable, rather endeavouring to reassure me by her patience, and pointing to a hopeful future.
Thomas Edward Brown

Humility is attentive patience.
Simone Weil

Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
William Penn

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.
Herman Hesse

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


I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.
David Hobson

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
Hyman Rickover

My biggest weakness is patience, wanting to see things happen too quickly or get changes in place right away. Not having the patience to let things develop.
Paul Gleason

Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.
Saint Francis de Sales

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