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 greatest teacher."
George Sand
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"Patience is the virtue of angels; fury is the weapon of fools."
Théophile Gautier
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"Patience is not passivity; it is the active waiting of one who knows the harvest will come."
Guy de Maupassant
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"Patience is a virtue that brings its own reward."
Ann Radcliffe
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"Patience teaches what haste cannot learn."
Ann Radcliffe
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"Patience is a virtue that brings peace."
Henry Fielding
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"Patience conquers all obstacles."
Henry Fielding
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"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."
George Sand
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"The impatient person loses the greatest lessons life offers."
George Sand
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"Patience is the virtue of the noble."
Frances Burney
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"Patience is a virtue."
Frances Burney
"Patience will achieve more with time than force will achieve with haste."
Daniel Defoe
"Patience is a virtue that brings its own reward."
Daniel Defoe
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"Every great achievement is the reward of patience."
Laurence Sterne
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"Patience is the companion of wisdom."
Laurence Sterne
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"Patience is the virtue of those who understand time's value."
Ann Radcliffe
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"Patience is strength exercised in stillness."
Ann Radcliffe
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"The height of wisdom is to take things as they come with good humor."
Stendhal
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"Patience is not a virtue; it is a philosophy of the weak."
George Sand
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"Patience is the virtue of the strong."
Frances Burney
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"Patience is the surest road to peaceful living."
Henry Fielding
"Patience and time conquer all things."
Daniel Defoe
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"Patience is the capacity to bear pain without losing temper."
Mary Wollstonecraft
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"Patience is not the ability to wait, but the attitude while waiting."
Laurence Sterne
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"Patience is not passivity; it is the wisdom of right timing."
Ann Radcliffe
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"Patience is the bridge between desire and fulfillment."
Ann Radcliffe
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"Patience is the virtue of the strong."
Stendhal
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"To be patient is to be powerful."
Frances Burney
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"A man of real good nature is incapable of being offended."
Henry Fielding
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"The greatest virtue is patience with human weakness."
Henry Fielding