PATIENCE QUOTES IV
quotations about patience
Patience never wants Wonder to enter the house: because Wonder is a wretched guest. It uses all of you but is not careful with what is most fragile or irreplaceable. If it breaks you, it shrugs and moves on. Without asking, Wonder often brings along dubious friends: doubt, jealousy, greed. Together they take over; rearrange the furniture in every one of your rooms for their own comfort. They speak odd languages but make no attempt to translate for you. They cook strange meals in your heart that leave odd tastes and smells. When they finally go are you happy or miserable? Patience is always left holding the broom.
JONATHAN CARROLL
White Apples
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 nobler motion than any deed.
C. A. BARTOL
Radical Problems
Patience, he thought. So much of this was patience -- waiting, and thinking and doing things right. So much of all this, so much of all living was patience and thinking.
GARY PAULSEN
Hatchet
Patience is a bitter plant, but it has sweet fruit.
GERMAN PROVERB
Beware the fury of a patient man.
JOHN DRYDEN
Absalom and Achitophel
In a great many cases ... patience is just disguised cowardice.
MARIA MORAVSKY
"Let Us Lose Our Patience", The Outlook, April 26, 1922
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
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
The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.
HORACE BUSHNELL
The New Life
Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
JAMES MERRITT
9 Keys to Successful Leadership: How to Impact and Influence Others
Have patience with all the world, but first of all with yourself.
SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES
Spiritual Maxims
Patience is the panacea; but where does it grow, or who can swallow it?
WILLIAM SHENSTONE
Essays on Men and Manners
Patience is a plaister for all sores.
PERSIAN PROVERB
The strongest of all warriors are these two -- Time and Patience.
LEO TOLSTOY
War and Peace
Patience is the determination to exist when everything wants you to shatter.
RAY PARKER
The Healing Peace
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: the 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. Her countenance is calm and serene as the face of Heaven.
GEORGE HORNE
"Patience Portrayed", Discourses on Several Subjects, vol. 2
Patience is forbearance, i.e. the moral capacity to endure and forbear delay or imperfection.
DOMENIC MARBANIANG
80 Topical Study Notes
Patience is moral elasticity.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
The secret of patience is to do something else in the meantime.
CROFT M. PENTZ
The Complete Book of Zingers