Patience Quotes

The hardest virtue. Waiting, enduring, and trusting that things take the time they take.

17396 quotes

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"Patience with others reflects patience with ourselves and our own limitations."
George Berkeley
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"Patience is the recognition that truth unfolds in its own time."
George Berkeley
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"The patient man gathers strength that the hurried man never finds."
Antonio Genovesi
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"Patience is the recognition that some things grow only when given time."
Johann Tetens
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"Patience is not passivity but the active waiting of one who trusts the process."
Johann Tetens
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"Patience is the virtue of the strong."
Johann Herder
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"Patience is the calm acceptance of time's passage."
Johann Herder
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"Patience is a virtue that develops through practice and reflection."
Catharine Macaulay
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"Patience is the virtue of the strong."
Catharine Macaulay
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"Where our condition is the most wretched, our impatience is the most violent."
Friedrich Schiller
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"Patience is the companion of wisdom."
Hugo Grotius
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"Patience bears great fruit."
Hugo Grotius
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"Patience is not passivity, but the wisdom to act in proper time."
Christian Wolff
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"Patience is the companion of wisdom"
Jean Bodin
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"Patience is the virtue of the truly strong"
Jean Bodin
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"Patience is the companion of wisdom."
Hugo Grotius
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"Patience allows us to see patterns that haste obscures."
Johann Herder
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"Patience is the art of hoping with eyes open."
Johann Herder
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"Patience is the virtue of those who know their own strength."
Catharine Macaulay
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"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."
Friedrich Schiller
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"Patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to maintain a good attitude while waiting."
Hugo Grotius
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"Patience is a virtue that brings peace to the restless soul."
Hugo Grotius
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"Patience in deliberation prevents rash destruction."
Jean Bodin
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"Patience in gathering facts prevents haste in drawing conclusions."
Jean Bodin
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"Patience is the ornament of the brave."
Friedrich Schiller
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"Patience is not passivity; it is purposeful waiting."
Christian Wolff
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"Patience is wisdom observing that time is an ally."
Christian Wolff
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"Patience is the virtue of noble souls."
Johann Goethe
"Patience is the virtue that separates the wise from the impulsive."
Moses Mendelssohn
"Patience is the companion of wisdom."
Moses Mendelssohn