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
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
Patience is an important mechanism for the renewal of our strength.
ABDUL K. SESAY
Remedies for Positive Living
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 cultivated in the storms of your own heart and mind.
CHRISTINA FELDMAN
Compassion
Patience is a plaister for all sores.
PERSIAN PROVERB
Patience is the analogue of God's serenity.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
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
The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.
HORACE BUSHNELL
The New Life
Patience is God's nature.
TERTULLIAN
Of Patience
Patience has tender feet.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
I hate patience. Slows everything down.
J. D. ROBB
Witness in Death
Beware the fury of a patient man.
JOHN DRYDEN
Absalom and Achitophel
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
Patience is a bitter plant, but it has sweet fruit.
GERMAN PROVERB
The wisdom and the theory of patience are very simple; for patience is a pure quiet; but impatience is a strong emotion, and therefore something that has to be borne or carried. Now, if we have a burden to lift, and add thereto impatience, what do we but add weight to weight?
JAMES VILA BLAKE
"Of Patience", Essays
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