Patience Quotes

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

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"Patience in persistence is the path to transformation."
Marx, Karl
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"Patience is the virtue that allows incomplete truths to mature into wisdom."
Comte, Auguste
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"Patience with flawed systems allows for gradual improvement."
Comte, Auguste
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"Patience is not weakness but the strength to wait for what truly matters."
Feuerbach, Ludwig
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"Patience with ourselves is the foundation of all virtue."
Feuerbach, Ludwig
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"The perfect person practices the art of not taking unnecessary offense."
Nietzsche, Friedrich
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"A man's natural impatience to reach his goal very often prevents him from finding the only way to it."
James, William
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"Patience is passion tamed."
Kierkegaard, Søren
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"Patience in reform is necessary; hasty revolution often destroys what gradual improvement could perfect."
Comte, Auguste
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"Patience is not passivity; it is active trust in the unfolding of truth."
Feuerbach, Ludwig
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"Patience with others is born of understanding with oneself."
Feuerbach, Ludwig
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"Patience is the art of hoping without expecting."
Feuerbach, Ludwig
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"Patience attains all things."
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
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"To learn to wait means to gain time."
Nietzsche, Friedrich
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"Patience is the most beautiful garment a man can wear in this world."
Kierkegaard, Søren
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"Patience with fools is time wasted; act with purpose."
Marx, Karl
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"Anger is an affect which is on the whole opposed to virtue."
Kant, Immanuel
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"Patience is a virtue."
Kant, Immanuel
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"Patience is a bitter plant but it has sweet fruit."
Kant, Immanuel
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"Patience is the recognition of historical necessity."
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
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"We must not be too hasty in our judgments"
Berkeley, George
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"Patience is the virtue of the strong, not the weakness of the timid."
Mill, John Stuart
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"Justice delayed is justice denied, and happiness deferred is happiness diminished."
Bentham, Jeremy
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"Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown."
Kierkegaard, Søren
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"One's own self-realization is by far the most important thing, and patience with others' failings."
Nietzsche, Friedrich
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"Patience is the complement of courage."
Kant, Immanuel
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"Patience is the virtue of those who understand necessity."
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
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"Patience in inquiry yields richer understanding than haste in judgment."
Berkeley, George
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"Patience is the best remedy for every trouble."
Hume, David
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"Patience is the virtue of the strong."
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich