Patience Quotes
The hardest virtue. Waiting, enduring, and trusting that things take the time they take.
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"Patience is not passive; it is concentrated strength."Samuel Beckett
"If you are not too long, I never mind waiting for you."Oscar Wilde
"Patience is the virtue of kings."Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Patience is the first essential when making progress toward your goals."Leo Tolstoy
"For most people undisturbed and often very tried by the world."James Joyce
"Patience is the highest form of wisdom."James Joyce
"Let's wait for darkness."Samuel Beckett
"How small a thing can make us lose patience."Samuel Beckett
"Mules are patient animals, but even they have limits."Anton Chekhov
"Patience is a virtue."George Bernard Shaw
"Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart."William Butler Yeats
"Patience is not passivity; it is the active waiting of one who knows their worth."William Butler Yeats
"Patience is not a virtue that comes to us easily."Thomas Hardy
"Patience is a virtue that must be learned."Thomas Hardy
"Wait with patience for good things."Thomas Hardy
"Patience is what you have when there are too many witnesses."Oscar Wilde
"We are waiting still."Samuel Beckett
"Patience transforms the mundane into the meaningful."James Joyce
"Patience is the wisdom of understanding time's true nature."James Joyce
"Patience is the virtue of the strong."Leo Tolstoy
"Nature will not be hurried."George Eliot
"Do not be too severe in your judgments."Anne Brontë
"Patience is the virtue of the strong."Anne Brontë
"Impatience leads to regret."Anne Brontë
"Do you ask what I fain would be? A student of the Middle Way."William Butler Yeats
"I will be as patient as a cat with a mouse, but my patience is not infinite."Anne Brontë
"Patience is the art of hoping without despair."Anne Brontë
"Patience is not virtue; it is the resignation of those who lack power."Thomas Hardy
"Not all that tempts your wandering eyes and haughty heart is lawful prize."William Butler Yeats
"Waiting is a form of active patience."Charlotte Brontë