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
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"Patience is the art of hoping while you work toward your goals."
Langston Hughes
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"Patience is not a virtue for those being crushed beneath history's wheels."
Richard Wright
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"The patience demanded of the oppressed is a form of violence in itself."
Richard Wright
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"But I learned a long time ago that you cannot make people be ready for a thing."
Zora Neale Hurston
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"To accept one's past, one must be humble enough to realize that the past cannot be changed."
James Baldwin
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"Patience is not the ability to wait, but the attitude while waiting."
Pearl S. Buck
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"Patience opens doors that hurry keeps closed."
Pearl S. Buck
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"Patience is not passive; it is the most active force of all."
John Steinbeck
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"Patience is not passive; it is active endurance."
William Faulkner
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"Patience and persistence overcome all obstacles."
William Faulkner
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"I've learned that patience is not weakness, but wisdom."
Langston Hughes
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"Patience and discipline will make you successful."
Ernest Hemingway
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"The strongest of all warriors are these two: time and patience."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"The path to greatness is paved with patience."
Zora Neale Hurston
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"The greatest proof of maturity is your willingness to forgive."
James Baldwin
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"Patience is the strongest fortress against the storms of life."
Pearl S. Buck
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"Patience is the virtue of the noble."
Sinclair Lewis
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"The greatest boon to the human race has been the discovery that patience is a virtue."
John Steinbeck
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"You must have very great patience to truly understand people."
Ernest Hemingway
"Patience is a virtue."
Theodore Dreiser
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"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
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"The patience of the creator is the strength of creation itself."
Sinclair Lewis
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"Hemingway noted that patience in writing is as important as skill."
Ernest Hemingway
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"A man without patience is like a tree without roots."
John Steinbeck
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"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