PATIENCE QUOTES III
quotations about patience
The gods have given unyielding patience as a medicine for incurable evils.
ARCHILOCHUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
Patience is like acceptance. One cannot push the natural unfolding of experience and change. Patience involves opening up to experience in every moment as it arises and giving our minds the space to be aware of the experience.
MALCOLM HUXTER
Healing the Heart and Mind with Mindfulness
Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement.
VERA NAZARIAN
The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
Patience is cultivated in the storms of your own heart and mind.
CHRISTINA FELDMAN
Compassion
He who wanteth patience is like a man who standeth trembling in the field without his armor, because everyone can strike him, and he can strike none.
HORACE SMITH
attributed, Day's Collacon
Patience is not merely waiting or code for inaction. It builds on and appreciates each step of progress.
EDITORIAL BOARD
The Christian Science Monitor, March 30, 2016
Patience is, therefore, the faculty of enduring a painful sensation, and yet looking confidently and steadily to the period when that sensation shall cease.
WILLIAM PINNOCK
The Guide to Knowledge
Patience is an important mechanism for the renewal of our strength.
ABDUL K. SESAY
Remedies for Positive Living
Patience is a plaister for all sores.
PERSIAN PROVERB
Patience is God's nature.
TERTULLIAN
Of Patience
We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
his last speech, delivered in response to a serenade at the White House, April 11, 1865
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
Beware the fury of a patient man.
JOHN DRYDEN
Absalom and Achitophel
The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.
HORACE BUSHNELL
The New Life
Inner peace is impossible without patience. Wisdom requires patience. Spiritual growth implies the mastery of patience. Patience allows the unfolding of destiny to proceed at its own unhurried pace.
BRIAN L. WEISS
Muchas Vidas, Muchas Maestros
Patience has tender feet.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
Patience is a bitter plant, but it has sweet fruit.
GERMAN PROVERB
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
Patience, he thought. So much of this was patience -- waiting, and thinking and doing things right. So much of all this, so much of all living was patience and thinking.
GARY PAULSEN
Hatchet
Patience is the analogue of God's serenity.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought