Patience

"Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim."

"Patience is a narcotic for the weak."

"Patience, one discovers, is not a virtue but a quantity. Like oil in the car or milk in the fridge. Not limitless and oceanic, but quite finite. I ran out years ago. All I have now is stamina. I can endure. Radiant with suppressed exasperation, I can hang in there."

"Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible."

"Patience and diligence, like faith, remove mountains."

"In my experience, communication is a matter of patience, imagination. I would like to believe these are qualities we have in sufficient measure."

"Patience. Diplomacy is a very exacting occupation. We will wait."

"Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little."

"Whoever is patient has great understanding, but one who is quick-tempered displays folly."

"A person’s wisdom yields patience; it is to one’s glory to overlook an offense."

"Patience will benefit you in every hour, every time and every opportunity. It helps you to overcome your opponent, howsoever strong he may be. It will help you in times of distress and hardships, in battles and in war and peace."

"Let us apply patience as well, for without patience nothing can be achieved. Verily, very often people give up a brilliant beginning only because of lack of patience. They forget that all great tasks are accompanied by difficulties, but by shunning those difficulties they condemn themselves to a fatiguing and endlessly reiterative course."

"I should prefer to be free from torture; but if the time comes when it must be endured, I shall desire that I may conduct myself therein with bravery, honour, and courage. Of course I prefer that war should not occur; but if war does occur, I shall desire that I may nobly endure the wounds, the starvation, and all that the exigency of war brings. Nor am I so mad as to crave illness; but if I must suffer illness, I shall desire that I may do nothing which shows lack of restraint, and nothing that is unmanly. The conclusion is, not that hardships are desirable, but that virtue is desirable, which enables us patiently to endure hardships."

"And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?"

"Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod."

"I will with patience hear, and find a time Both meet to hear and answer such high things. Till then, my noble friend, chew upon this."

"A high hope for a low heaven: God grant us patience!"

"Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe."

"I do oppose My patience to his fury, and am arm'd To suffer, with a quietness of spirit, The very tyranny and rage of his."

"'Tis all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow, But no man's virtue nor sufficiency To be so moral when he shall endure The like himself."

"How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?"

"Had it pleas'd heaven To try me with affliction * * * I should have found in some place of my soul A drop of patience."

"Like Patience gazing on kings' graves, and smiling Extremity out of act."

"She sat like patience on a monument Smiling at grief."

"He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding."

"All good things to those who wait."

"So while I'm still healing Just try and have a little patience [...] Have a little patience Woah, 'cause I, I just need time"

"Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait."

"The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience."

"“They must understand that we can only lose by taking the offensive. Patience and time are my warriors, my champions,” thought Kutúzov. He knew that an apple should not be plucked while it is green. It will fall of itself when ripe, but if picked unripe the apple is spoiled, the tree is harmed, and your teeth are set on edge."

"Patience is the art of hoping."

"Durate, et vosmet rebus servate secundis."

"Superanda omnis fortuna ferendo est."

"I think that wherever your journey takes you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience — and laughter."

"I worked with patience which means almost power."

"And I must bear What is ordained with patience, being aware Necessity doth front the universe With an invincible gesture."

"But there are times when patience proves at fault."

"Thus with hir fader for a certeyn space Dwelleth this flour of wyfly pacience, That neither by hir wordes ne hir face Biforn the folk, ne eek in her absence, Ne shewed she that hir was doon offence."

"But the waiting time, my brothers, Is the hardest time of all."

"The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience."

"Durum! sed levius fit patientia Quicquid corrigere est nefas."

"For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill."

"Patience et longueur de temps. Font plus que force ni que rage."

"Rule by patience, Laughing Water!"

"Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait."

"All things come round to him who will but wait."

"Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts."

"Sua quisque exempla debet æquo animo pati."

"La patience est amère, mais son fruit est doux."

"Nihil tam acerbum est in quo non æquus animus solatium inveniat."