Patience Quotes

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

17396 quotes

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"The mind is strengthened by discipline."
Horace
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"Patience and diligence, like faith, can remove mountains."
Horace
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"Patience is the companion of wisdom."
Pliny the Younger
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"Patience is the virtue of the strong, not the weak."
Tacitus
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"The patience to listen is the wisdom to understand."
Tacitus
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"Patience in adversity is a virtue rarer than diamonds."
Ammianus Marcellinus
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"Patience is the virtue of the strong and the wisdom of the humble."
Pliny the Elder
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"I have often regretted my speech, never my silence."
Cato the Younger
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"Patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting."
Cato the Younger
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"The city was taken not by storm but by patience."
Livy
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"Patience is the companion of wisdom."
Livy
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"Patience is the greatest virtue"
Cato the Elder
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"The greatest pleasure is obtained when the desire is longest resisted"
Cato the Elder
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"Patience is the strongest fortress of the weak."
Horace
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"He who speaks in anger has already lost the argument."
Horace
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"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."
Pliny the Younger
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"Patience is the virtue of those who understand the weight of empire."
Diocletian
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"Patience is the virtue of those who understand the weight of eternity."
Constantine I
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"Patience is strength resting, not weakness waiting."
Constantine I
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"Patience is the virtue of the strong."
Septimius Severus
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"Patience is not passivity; it is the active art of waiting wisely."
Pliny the Elder
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"Patience is the willingness to wait for the fruit that has not yet ripened."
Pliny the Elder
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"To build something lasting requires patience that spans generations."
Cato the Elder
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"The art of patience is knowing when to wait and when to act."
Diocletian
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"The patience of stone endures where the passion of fire burns away."
Diocletian
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"Patience is the virtue of kings."
Hadrian
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"Patience is the weapon of those too strong to act in anger."
Septimius Severus
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"Have patience with all that is unsolved in your heart."
Antoninus Pius
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"I have learned that patience in war often achieves what haste cannot."
Constantine I
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"I have learned that patience is not weakness, but the greatest form of strength."
Constantine I