Patience Quotes

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

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"Patience is the ability to imagine that outcomes will eventually reflect our true worth."
Charles Cooley
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"Understanding requires patience with complexity."
Max Weber
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"Patience is the virtue of those who understand the weight of time."
Georg Simmel
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"A man must learn to endure what he cannot avoid."
Herbert Spencer
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"Patience is a virtue that brings peace."
Herbert Spencer
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"Patience is the mark of wisdom."
Herbert Spencer
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"Patience in research reveals what impatience cannot discern."
Max Weber
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"We must have patience with all that is yet unresolved in our hearts."
Harriet Martineau
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"Patience is the companion of wisdom."
Harriet Martineau
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"Patience is the companion of wisdom."
Herbert Spencer
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"Self-control requires energy, and when depleted, we are more likely to act impulsively."
Roy Baumeister
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"Patience is a virtue that our modern age does not cultivate."
Roy Baumeister
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"Patience is a virtue that modern capitalism actively works to eliminate."
Max Weber
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"The practice of patience is the practice of love in action."
Harriet Martineau
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"Patience is not passivity; it is the strength to endure and persist."
Harriet Martineau
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"Patience is not passive. It is the active process of building toward something worthwhile."
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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"Patience with ourselves is as important as patience with others."
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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"We are not to expect to see the seed and the plant in their full development at once."
Herbert Spencer
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"Patience is not passive acceptance; it is active trust in the process."
Martin Seligman
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"Patience allows for deeper understanding and better decisions."
Martin Seligman
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"The capacity to delay gratification is one of the most important psychological achievements."
Roy Baumeister
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"An ounce of patience will save a pound of trouble."
Harriet Martineau
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"The patience to bear the unbearable is the foundation of all virtue."
Harriet Martineau
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"Patience is not passivity; it's strategic waiting."
Christopher Peterson
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"Patience is wisdom dressed in waiting."
Christopher Peterson
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"Time reveals all secrets; patience is the greatest virtue."
Herbert Spencer
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"Patience with others is the fruit of patience with yourself."
Martin Seligman
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"Patience is not the absence of action but the presence of perspective."
Amos Tversky
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"To be happy one must cultivate steadiness of temper and discipline of mind."
Harriet Martineau
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"Patience is the virtue of the truly strong."
Harriet Martineau