Patience Quotes

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

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"Patience is a great virtue in all human relations."
Ivan Turgenev
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"One must be patient with the world."
Ivan Turgenev
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"Patience is the virtue of the noble."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"Love teaches patience; hate teaches haste."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"Patience is simply the art of postponing your own disappointment."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"Patience is a virtue only the suffering understand."
Nikolai Gogol
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"Patience is the virtue of the strong, not the weakness of the timid."
Maxim Gorky
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"Patience is the wisdom of understanding that all things unfold in their own time."
Maxim Gorky
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"Patience is not passivity but deliberate action with restraint."
Ivan Turgenev
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"Patience is the wisdom of knowing when not to act."
Ivan Turgenev
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"Patience is the virtue of those who seek something greater."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"Patience is not waiting—it is the art of beautiful endurance."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"Patience is the luxury of those with nothing left to lose."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"Patience is the virtue that separates the wise from the foolish."
Nikolai Gogol
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"Patience is the recognition that some things cannot be hurried."
Nikolai Gogol
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"Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's the wisdom to know what's worth waiting for."
Anton Chekhov
"All that is needed is a little patience."
Samuel Beckett
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"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time."
Leo Tolstoy
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"Patience is a quality more powerful than any army."
Leo Tolstoy
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"Patience is not passivity; it is purposeful waiting."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"Patience is the virtue of the strong."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"Patience is a virtue not because waiting is pleasant but because what comes after is worth it."
Ivan Turgenev
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"Patience is the root of all peace."
Ivan Turgenev
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"Patience is virtue only when paired with the courage to act."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"To speak rarely and seldom is a great art in conversation."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"Patience is the virtue of the strong."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time."
Leo Tolstoy
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"Patience is a virtue which was never granted to the human being in abundance."
Anton Chekhov
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"One must learn to live with uncertainty."
Ivan Turgenev
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"Patience is the great art of the ages."
William Butler Yeats