Patience Quotes

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

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"Patience is the virtue of those who understand life's complexity."
Rosenzweig, Franz
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"Patience teaches us that some goods cannot be rushed."
Rosenzweig, Franz
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"Patience is the virtue of those who understand time's true nature."
Blanchot, Maurice
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"Patience is the art of holding space for another's becoming."
Buber, Martin
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"Patience is the virtue of those who have learned to wait for the eternal."
Weil, Simone
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"Patience is the virtue of the strong and the wisdom of the mature."
Moore, George Edward
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"Patience is the art of waiting with purpose and maintaining perspective."
Moore, George Edward
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"Patience is the temporal form of ethical obligation."
Levinas, Emmanuel
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"Patience is the virtue of those who understand that transformation cannot be rushed."
Rosenzweig, Franz
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"Patience is learning to dwell in the spaces between moments."
Blanchot, Maurice
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"Patience is the art of surrendering to what we cannot hurry."
Blanchot, Maurice
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"Patience is the virtue of those who have already given up."
Bataille, Georges
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"Patience is not passive waiting; it is active participation in the unfolding of time."
Weil, Simone
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"Patience is the virtue of those who trust in redemption."
Rosenzweig, Franz
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"Patience is the silence that allows others to speak."
Rosenzweig, Franz
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"Patience is a revolutionary virtue."
Althusser, Louis
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"Patience is not passivity but the active waiting for the impossible."
Blanchot, Maurice
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"Waiting is not inaction but the highest form of attention."
Blanchot, Maurice
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"Patience is the virtue of those too afraid to act."
Bataille, Georges
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"Patience is the virtue of those imprisoned by circumstance."
Bataille, Georges
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"Wars of position require patience and strategic thinking."
Gramsci, Antonio
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"Patience is the virtue of those who struggle for lasting change."
Gramsci, Antonio
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"Patience is not passivity but strategic understanding."
Lukács, György
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"The first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who is silence when he should be silent."
Russell, Bertrand
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"Waiting is an essential dimension of existence."
Blanchot, Maurice
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"To wait is to acknowledge that we are not masters of time."
Blanchot, Maurice
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"Patience is the recognition that we are not sufficient unto ourselves."
Blanchot, Maurice
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"Patience is the virtue of those who have surrendered haste."
Blanchot, Maurice
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"Patience with injustice is a form of collaboration."
Marcuse, Herbert
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"Impatience with oppression is a sign of conscience."
Marcuse, Herbert