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
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
Patience is God's nature.
TERTULLIAN
Of Patience
Patience is the analogue of God's serenity.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
Patience is cultivated in the storms of your own heart and mind.
CHRISTINA FELDMAN
Compassion
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! Patience! The world is a vast and ghastly intricacy of mechanism, and one has to be very wary, not to get mangled by it.
D. H. LAWRENCE
Lady Chatterley's Lover
In a great many cases ... patience is just disguised cowardice.
MARIA MORAVSKY
"Let Us Lose Our Patience", The Outlook, April 26, 1922
Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement.
VERA NAZARIAN
The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.
A. A. MILNE
Winnie-the-Pooh
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 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, 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
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 and wisdom walk hand in hand, like two one-armed lovers.
JAROD KINTZ
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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
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 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