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 ultimate form of power."
Guy de Maupassant
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"Patience is the virtue of the strong."
Alexandre Dumas, fils
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"Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow."
Alexandre Dumas, fils
"Patience is not passive; it is the active choice to wait with purpose."
Charles Baudelaire
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"Patience is the virtue of those who have learned to wait for life to reveal its secrets."
Paul Verlaine
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"I discovered that patience is the prelude to transformation."
Arthur Rimbaud
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"Patience is the virtue of those who understand life's timing."
Arthur Rimbaud
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"Patience is a virtue that few truly possess."
Paul Verlaine
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"The patient hand accomplishes what force cannot."
Victor Leconte de Lisle
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"Patience is not passivity but purposeful waiting."
Victor Leconte de Lisle
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"Patience is the virtue of those who understand that greatness takes time."
Théophile Gautier
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"Patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting."
Alexandre Dumas, fils
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"Patience is the virtue of champions."
Alexandre Dumas, fils
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"Patience is the virtue of those who understand the price of haste"
Guy de Maupassant
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"Patience is the art of hoping without expectations"
Guy de Maupassant
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"Patience is power."
George Sand
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"Patience is the luxury of those with nowhere to go."
Gérard de Nerval
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"Patience is not passive acceptance, but active trust in the unfolding of life."
Victor Leconte de Lisle
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"Patience is not passive acceptance, but active waiting."
Alexandre Dumas, fils
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"Patience is the art of hoping."
Alexandre Dumas, fils
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"Patience is the virtue of the strong."
Théophile Gautier
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"Patience is the virtue of asses, but the strength of the free."
George Sand
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"Patience is the art of letting time teach what haste cannot."
Gérard de Nerval
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"Patience is the virtue of the truly strong."
Guy de Maupassant
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"Better slip with foot than tongue."
Mary Wollstonecraft
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"Patience is the art of hoping."
Gérard de Nerval
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"The practice of patience is the practice of wisdom."
Victor Leconte de Lisle
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"Patience is the art of expecting without despair."
Victor Leconte de Lisle
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"Patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to maintain a good attitude while waiting."
Alexandre Dumas, fils
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"Patience is the art of allowing time to work in our favor."
Alexandre Dumas, fils