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“there is nothing stronger than those two: patience and time, they will do it all.” Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
“To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.” William Shakespeare, Henry VIII
“Paper has more patience than people.” Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
“Immortality must grant endless patience.” Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
“Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.” William Shakespeare, Henry V
“Possess your soul in patience — you will see!” Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
“No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.” William Shakespeare, King Lear
“Patience is always rewarded and romance is just around the corner.” Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
“Being smart is good, being patient is better.” Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
“A very little thief of occasion will rob you of a great deal of patience.” William Shakespeare, Coriolanus
“the time has arrived when patience becomes a crime and mayhem appears garbed in the mantle of virtue.” Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes
“PATIENCE, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.” Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
“Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity, was now no longer a minor feature in Mrs Angel Clare; and it sustained her.” Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience—or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.” Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
“You have passed through the two hardest tests on the spiritual road: the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what you encounter.” Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die
“How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?” William Shakespeare, Othello
“No nation every loses its dignity or its good standing by conciliating its differences, and by exercising great patience with, and consideration for, the rights of other nations.” Franklin D. Roosevelt, Quarantine Speech
“To major things the surest road is on the minor pains bestowed, if you don't happen to be in a hurry.” Samuel Beckett, Molloy
“Before they grow so big, the baobabs start out by being little.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“A house cannot be made habitable in a day, and after all, how few days go to make up a century.” Bram Stoker, Dracula
“I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion.” Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“However, he means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.” Bram Stoker, Dracula
“Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people’s sins, but delights in the truth. It...” Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember
“Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without...” Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
“He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding.” William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida
“You're enough to try the patience of an oyster!” Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
“Do you have the patience to wait till your mud settles and the water is clear? Can you remain unmoving till the right action arises by itself?” Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“We don't have time to rush too fast with a kid who has as much chance of being a monster as a military genius. ” Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
“You have to realize it's going to be a long process and that you'll work on things slowly, one at a time.” Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“Simple in actions and in thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.” Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“The adventures first . . . explanations take such a dreadful time.” Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
“Your father, Jo. He never loses patience, never doubts or complains, but always hopes, and works and waits so cheerfully that one is ashamed to do otherwise before him.” Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
“in every sickness there are many days when the doctor can do nothing but wait.” Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
“Be worthy, love, and love will come” Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
“I have observed, Mrs. Elton, in the course of my life, that if things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.” Jane Austen, Emma
“Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.” Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys
“Our stay-put behavior reflects our view that the stock market serves as a relocation center at which money is moved from the active to the patient.” Warren Buffett, The Essays of Warren Buffett

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