Patience Quotes
The hardest virtue. Waiting, enduring, and trusting that things take the time they take.
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"Patience is not a virtue; it is an art."John Steinbeck
"Patience is not passivity but active endurance."Ralph Ellison
"Patience is the art of hoping while you work toward your goals."Langston Hughes
"Patience is not a virtue for those being crushed beneath history's wheels."Richard Wright
"The patience demanded of the oppressed is a form of violence in itself."Richard Wright
"But I learned a long time ago that you cannot make people be ready for a thing."Zora Neale Hurston
"To accept one's past, one must be humble enough to realize that the past cannot be changed."James Baldwin
"Patience is not the ability to wait, but the attitude while waiting."Pearl S. Buck
"Patience opens doors that hurry keeps closed."Pearl S. Buck
"Patience is not passive; it is the most active force of all."John Steinbeck
"Patience is not passive; it is active endurance."William Faulkner
"Patience and persistence overcome all obstacles."William Faulkner
"I've learned that patience is not weakness, but wisdom."Langston Hughes
"Patience and discipline will make you successful."Ernest Hemingway
"The strongest of all warriors are these two: time and patience."F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The path to greatness is paved with patience."Zora Neale Hurston
"The greatest proof of maturity is your willingness to forgive."James Baldwin
"Patience is the strongest fortress against the storms of life."Pearl S. Buck
"Patience is the virtue of the noble."Sinclair Lewis
"The greatest boon to the human race has been the discovery that patience is a virtue."John Steinbeck
"You must have very great patience to truly understand people."Ernest Hemingway
"Patience is a virtue."Theodore Dreiser
"Life has a way of setting things right, if we are patient enough."Pearl S. Buck
"If no one were to speak but those to whom God has given a fluency of tongue and eloquence, the world would be a very quiet place."Willa Cather
"The patience of the creator is the strength of creation itself."Sinclair Lewis
"Hemingway noted that patience in writing is as important as skill."Ernest Hemingway
"A man without patience is like a tree without roots."John Steinbeck
"Ambition without patience is merely frustration waiting to happen."F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Patience is not a virtue born naturally; it is earned through bitter experience."Theodore Dreiser
"In any conflict between power and patience, patience will ultimately prevail."Harriet Beecher Stowe