Patience Quotes

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

17396 quotes

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"Patience is the art of hoping."
Aimé Césaire
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"If the adults won't take responsibility, the young will."
Greta Thunberg
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"Patience in the face of destruction is not virtue; it is complicity."
David Brower
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"Patience with bureaucracy should never mean patience with destruction."
David Brower
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"The patient tortoise of conservation will outlast the hare of exploitation."
David Brower
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"Patience is the virtue that allows seeds to become mighty trees."
Leopold Sédar Senghor
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"Patience in adversity is a sign of true inner strength."
Leopold Sédar Senghor
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"The more you understand yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others."
Wangari Maathai
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"Patience is not passivity; it is strategic waiting"
Edward Said
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"Patience is the ability to act in the long term"
Edward Said
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"Patience is the art of hoping well."
Leopold Sédar Senghor
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"Patience plants seeds that time alone can harvest."
Leopold Sédar Senghor
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"Patience in the face of injustice is complicity."
Aimé Césaire
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"Patience is not weakness but the strength to wait for the right moment."
Leopold Sédar Senghor
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"Patience is the virtue of the defeated."
Slavoj Žižek
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"Patience is not passivity; it is the wisdom to know when to act and when to wait."
Leopold Sédar Senghor
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"The debt to those we study is never fully discharged through scholarship."
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
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"The practice of slow reading offers resistance to the acceleration of academic life."
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
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"To teach responsibly is to acknowledge the limits of what knowledge can accomplish."
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
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"Patience is not passivity but the active restraint of premature action."
Slavoj Žižek
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"The land remembers; it keeps its own counsel and reveals itself only to those who seek with patience and humility."
Aldo Leopold
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"To restore damaged ecosystems requires the kind of patience and humility that our culture rarely teaches."
Aldo Leopold
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"Patience is the art of waiting without hope."
Giorgio Agamben
"Patience is not a passive virtue but an active form of resistance."
Frantz Fanon
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"Patience is the discipline of waiting for meaning to emerge."
Félix Guattari
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"Patience is the virtue of the strong."
Gilles Deleuze
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"Patience is strength waiting."
Gilles Deleuze
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"Patience is not passivity; it is strategic endurance."
Slavoj Žižek
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"Patience is the surrender of the illusion of control."
Slavoj Žižek
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"Patience is the recognition that time reveals what haste conceals."
Giorgio Agamben