PATIENCE QUOTES IV
quotations about patience
Patience never wants Wonder to enter the house: because Wonder is a wretched guest. It uses all of you but is not careful with what is most fragile or irreplaceable. If it breaks you, it shrugs and moves on. Without asking, Wonder often brings along dubious friends: doubt, jealousy, greed. Together they take over; rearrange the furniture in every one of your rooms for their own comfort. They speak odd languages but make no attempt to translate for you. They cook strange meals in your heart that leave odd tastes and smells. When they finally go are you happy or miserable? Patience is always left holding the broom.
JONATHAN CARROLL
White Apples
The wisdom and the theory of patience are very simple; for patience is a pure quiet; but impatience is a strong emotion, and therefore something that has to be borne or carried. Now, if we have a burden to lift, and add thereto impatience, what do we but add weight to weight?
JAMES VILA BLAKE
"Of Patience", Essays
Beware the fury of a patient man.
JOHN DRYDEN
Absalom and Achitophel
Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
The Moral Sayings of Publilius Syrus
Patience is the ability to maintain self-control over the impulse that rises suddenly when something disagreeable happens. It is not just disregard of or indifference to life's daily irritations or upsetting incidents--it's a real control of self, of one's feelings and impulses.
GARY RYAN BLAIR
Everything Counts
In a great many cases ... patience is just disguised cowardice.
MARIA MORAVSKY
"Let Us Lose Our Patience", The Outlook, April 26, 1922
We increase our losses ourselves, and club with fortune to undo us, when with them we lose our patience, too; as infants that, being robbed of some of their baubles, throw away the rest in childish anger.
WILLIAM WYCHERLEY
attributed, Day's Collacon
He who wanteth patience in this world is like a man who standeth trembling in the field without his armor, because every one can strike him, and he can strike none: so the least push of pain, or loss or disgrace, doth trouble that man more which hath not the skill to suffer than twenty trials can move him which is armed with patience, like a golden shield in his hand, to break the stroke of every cross, and save the heart though the body suffer; for, while the heart is whole, all is well.
HENRY SMITH
attributed, Six Thousand Illustrations of Moral and Religious Truths
Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
JAMES MERRITT
9 Keys to Successful Leadership: How to Impact and Influence Others
Patience is the determination to exist when everything wants you to shatter.
RAY PARKER
The Healing Peace
Patience is a nobler motion than any deed.
C. A. BARTOL
Radical Problems
The strongest of all warriors are these two -- Time and Patience.
LEO TOLSTOY
War and Peace
Patience is forbearance, i.e. the moral capacity to endure and forbear delay or imperfection.
DOMENIC MARBANIANG
80 Topical Study Notes
Patience and wisdom walk hand in hand, like two one-armed lovers.
JAROD KINTZ
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Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
CHINESE PROVERB
Have patience with all the world, but first of all with yourself.
SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES
Spiritual Maxims
Patience governs the flesh, strengthens the spirit, sweetens the temper, stifles anger, extinguishes envy, subdues pride; she bridles the tongue, refrains the hand, tramples upon temptations, endures persecutions, consummates martyrdom: Patience produces unity in the church, loyalty in the state, harmony in families and societies; she comforts the poor and moderates the rich: she makes us humble in prosperity, cheerful in adversity, unmoved by calumny and reproach: the teaches us to forgive those who have injured us, and to be the first in asking forgiveness of those whom we have injured: she delights the faithful, and invites the unbelieving: she adorns the woman, and approves the man: is loved in a child, praised in a young man, admired in an old man: she is beautiful in either sex, and every age. Her countenance is calm and serene as the face of Heaven.
GEORGE HORNE
"Patience Portrayed", Discourses on Several Subjects, vol. 2
Patience is the panacea; but where does it grow, or who can swallow it?
WILLIAM SHENSTONE
Essays on Men and Manners
Patience is moral elasticity.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
The secret of patience is to do something else in the meantime.
CROFT M. PENTZ
The Complete Book of Zingers