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 the active work of maintaining one's composure."
Spinoza, Baruch
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"Patience is the virtue of the strong."
Descartes, René
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"Patience is the ornament of the brave."
Al-Ghazali
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"In the garden of knowledge, water the flowers of understanding with the rain of patience."
Avicenna
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"To be patient is to give time its due respect."
Avicenna
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"Patience is the practice of endurance, and endurance is the foundation of all achievement."
Locke, John
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"Patience is the art of waiting without ceasing to move forward."
Locke, John
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"Patience is the virtue of a philosopher, not of a conquerer."
Hume, David
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"Understanding requires patience and perseverance."
Averroes
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"Patience is the foundation of all virtue."
Averroes
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"Patience is not passive; it is the strength to wait with purpose."
Maimonides
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"Patience is the arithmetic of the destitute."
Descartes, René
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"Patience is not the absence of action, but the wisdom of right timing."
Avicenna
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"Patience is the crown of the virtuous."
Al-Ghazali
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"Patience is not passivity; it is the art of choosing the right moment."
Al-Ghazali
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"Patience is the companion of wisdom."
Augustine of Hippo
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"Patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to maintain a good attitude while waiting."
Augustine of Hippo
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"Patience is the ornament of the brave."
Augustine of Hippo
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"Patience is the companion of wisdom."
Thomas Aquinas
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"Patience is the companion of wisdom and the enemy of rash judgment."
Averroes
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"The patient soul understands that all things unfold in their proper time."
Averroes
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"The patient person achieves more than the rushed because wisdom cannot be hurried."
Averroes
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"Those who cultivate patience gather harvests that last a lifetime."
Avicenna
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"A moment of anger can destroy what years of kindness have built."
Avicenna
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"Patience is the strength of the weak, impatience the weakness of the strong."
Thomas Aquinas
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"Bear and forbear."
Epictetus
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"The gate to good deeds is patience."
Epictetus
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"Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it."
Seneca
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"Events that are predestined require no anger."
Seneca
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"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the acts which provoke it."
Seneca