Patience Quotes
The hardest virtue. Waiting, enduring, and trusting that things take the time they take.
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"Patience is the practice of trusting the process while taking consistent action."Sundar Pichai
"Perfection is the enemy of good."Linus Torvalds
"Patience in development leads to elegance in results."Linus Torvalds
"Patience is not passivity but active waiting."D.W. Winnicott
"Insight must come slowly, if ever."Anna Freud
"Patience is not the absence of action, but the right action at the right time."Anna Freud
"Sustainability requires patience, which is the rarest commodity in modern capitalism."Sunita Narain
"Patience is not passivity, it is purposeful waiting."Karen Horney
"To be patient is to be powerful."Bruno Bettelheim
"Understanding requires patience and humility"Wendy Doniger
"Patience with development requires resisting the urge to impose adult timelines on children."D.W. Winnicott
"The analyst must not interpret too quickly."Jacques Lacan
"The analyst's position is one of radical passivity."Jacques Lacan
"One cannot force the unconscious to yield."Jacques Lacan
"Patience with children is an investment in their emotional health."Bruno Bettelheim
"Patience is not passive but an active choice to remain present."Bruno Bettelheim
"Patience is not passivity but active waiting."R.D. Laing
"The ability to delay gratification develops gradually in childhood."Anna Freud
"Patience is not about waiting; it is about presence."Bruno Bettelheim
"The analyst's patience is itself a therapeutic force, teaching the patient that time need not be rushed."D.W. Winnicott
"Patience with oneself is the rarest and most necessary form of patience."Karen Horney
"The mind of a child is a garden that must be tended with care and patience."Anna Freud
"The ability to delay gratification is a sign of psychological maturity."Anna Freud
"The capacity for patience is developed, not innate."Bruno Bettelheim
"Patience comes from understanding that meaningful transformation unfolds according to its own rhythm."Mircea Eliade
"Patience allows understanding to develop"Pierre Clastres
"Understanding requires patience and humility."Clifford Geertz
"Every system contains its own logic that must be decoded with patience."Louis Dumont
"Patience is not passivity but the refusal to be rushed into foolishness."Pierre Clastres
"Patience is the art of waiting without bitterness."Pierre Clastres