Patience Quotes

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

17396 quotes

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"Patience in the face of prejudice is itself a form of wisdom."
Catharine Macaulay
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"Patience is not passive acceptance but active trust in the future."
Johann Herder
"Patience is the virtue that builds lasting foundations."
Moses Mendelssohn
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"Patience is the virtue of those who understand the long arc of history."
Hugo Grotius
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"The virtue of patience is the companion of all who seek lasting change."
Hugo Grotius
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"Patience is the virtue of the strong."
Friedrich Schiller
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"In the grand tapestry of human affairs, patience and persistence accomplish what haste cannot."
Jean Bodin
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"Patience is the recognition that perfection unfolds according to necessary law."
Christian Wolff
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"Patience recognizes that all genuine goods require their proper time for fruition."
Christian Wolff
"Patience is the virtue that allows us to harvest the seeds we have sown."
Moses Mendelssohn
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"Patience is the virtue of the scientist."
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
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"I have found that patience always yields results."
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
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"I have learned that patience is its own reward."
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
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"Everything is gestation and then birth. To get anywhere you have to do everything normally, ordinarily, slowly."
Johann Goethe
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"Genius is patience."
Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon
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"Life requires careful observation and patient study."
Carl Linnaeus
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"Nature rewards the patient observer."
Carl Linnaeus
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"Patience is the virtue of the true naturalist."
Carl Linnaeus
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"The patient observer will find treasures in the smallest things."
Carl Linnaeus
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"Patience is the companion of wisdom."
Claude Adrien Helvetius
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"Patience is the virtue of the strong."
Claude Adrien Helvetius
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"Patience is the companion of wisdom."
Paul-Henri Thiry Holbach
"Understanding requires patience and observation."
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac
"Understanding comes through patient observation."
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac
"Patience in learning yields great rewards."
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac
"Understanding deepens with patient study."
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac
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"Patience is not passivity, but the strength to wait for the proper moment to act."
Jean Bodin
"Patience is not passivity; it is the discipline to act at the right moment."
Moses Mendelssohn
"Patience paired with purpose creates the conditions for genuine achievement."
Moses Mendelssohn
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"Patience in calculation is as important as brilliance in conception."
Joseph-Louis Lagrange