Patience Quotes

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Famous Quotes & Quotations About Patience:

One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life.
~ Chinese Proverb.

Patience: A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.
~ Ambrose Bierce.

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
~ John Quincy Adams.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Beware the fury of a patient man.
~ John Dryden, Absolam and Achitophel, 1680.

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.
~ Michel de Montaigne.

Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.
~ George-Louis de Buffon.

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?
~ Paul Sweeney.

How poor are they that have not patience!
What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
~ William Shakespeare, Othello, 1604.

Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.
~ Lord Chesterfield.

Patience is the ability to count down before you blast off.
~ Author Unknown.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.
~ St. Augustine.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
~ Franklin P. Jones.

Patience is also a form of action.
~ Auguste Rodin.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.
~ Mac McCleary.

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