Patience

(333 votes)   Let this be understood, then, at starting; that the patient conquest of difficulties which rise in the regular and legitimate channels of business and enterprise is not only essential in securing the success which you seek but it is essential to that preparation of your mind, requisite for the enjoyment of your successes, and for retaining them when gained. So, day by day, and week by week; so month after month, and year after year, work on, and in that process gain strength and symmetry, and nerve and knowledge, that when success, patiently and bravely worked for, shall come, it may find you prepared to receive it and keep it,

Josiah Gilbert Holland
1819-1881, American Author

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(320 votes)   ''Work and wait'', ''work and wait'' is what God says to us in creation.

Josiah Gilbert Holland
1819-1881, American Author

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(202 votes)   Patience is not active; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
1803-1873, British Novelist, Poet

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(154 votes)   With close-lipped Patience for our only friend, Sad Patience, too near neighbor to Despair.

Matthew Arnold
1822-1888, British Poet, Critic

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(141 votes)   That which in mean men we entitle patience is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(133 votes)   Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(116 votes)   Patience is power; with time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.

Chinese Proverbs
Sayings of Chinese Origin

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(108 votes)   Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will be powerless to vex your mind.

Leonardo Da Vinci
1452-1519, Italian Inventor, Architect, Painter, Scientist, Sculptor

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(108 votes)   Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.

W. H. Auden
1907-1973, Anglo-American Poet

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(107 votes)   Patience is the key to paradise.

Turkish Proverbs
Sayings of Turkish Origin

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(103 votes)   Let me look upward into the branches of the flowering oak and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well.

Wilferd A. Peterson

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(97 votes)   An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains.

Dutch Proverbs
Sayings of Dutch Origin

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(88 votes)   Patience and shuffle the cards.

Miguel De Cervantes
1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet

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(84 votes)   Dios tarda pero no olvida -- God delays but doesn't forget.

Spanish Proverbs
Sayings of Spanish Origin

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(81 votes)   Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them -- every day begin the task anew -

St. Francis De Sales
1567-1622, Roman Catholic Bishop, Writer

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