Patience Quotes

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

17396 quotes

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"Patience is not passivity. It is the ability to trust in the process of liberation."
Angela Davis
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"Sustainability requires humility and respect for nature."
Winona LaDuke
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"Patience is not passivity; it is strategic persistence."
Barbara Smith
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"Patience with injustice is complicity."
Angela Davis
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"Patience is not passivity; it is the strategic wisdom to know when to act and when to listen."
Angela Davis
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"Patience is not passivity; it is strategic waiting."
Barbara Smith
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"Patience is the companion of those who understand time's true cost."
Barbara Smith
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"Patience with oppression is complicity; urgency is sometimes a moral imperative."
Barbara Smith
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"Patience is not passive. It is the discipline of deep listening."
Winona LaDuke
"Patience is a virtue, but patience with injustice is a vice."
Bill McKibben
"The earth's capacity to regenerate depends on our willingness to work with natural processes."
Vandana Shiva
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"Patience is not passive waiting but active persistence in the face of obstacles."
Angela Davis
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"Patience with ourselves and others is necessary as we unlearn oppression."
Angela Davis
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"Patience is not about waiting passively - it's about building movements that can sustain themselves over time."
Naomi Klein
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"Patience is not passivity; it is strategic waiting."
Arundhati Roy
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"Patience with the process, urgency in implementation."
James Hansen
"Patience is not passivity. It is the ability to persist through difficulty."
Bill McKibben
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"Patience is not about waiting, it's about maintaining your integrity while the world burns around you."
Arundhati Roy
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"Patience is the art of hoping in the face of hopelessness."
Arundhati Roy
"Patience is not the same as passivity."
Bill McKibben
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"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."
David Brower
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"Patience is required, but so is urgency - we must hold both."
Naomi Klein
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"Patience with science is important, but urgency in action is critical."
James Hansen
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"Patience with incremental progress is a luxury we don't have."
James Hansen
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"When someone tells you that you're wrong, before you react, listen carefully to what they're saying."
Arundhati Roy
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"Patience is the art of waiting for the right moment."
Arundhati Roy
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"Patience is the virtue of the strong."
Arundhati Roy
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"To think like a mountain, one must understand patience."
Aldo Leopold
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"Patience is wisdom's greatest virtue."
Leopold Sédar Senghor
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"Patience plants seeds that grow into wisdom."
Leopold Sédar Senghor