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Patience

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else. – George Savile

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it. – Edith Sitwell

Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy. – Saadi

Our patience will achieve more than our force. – Edmund Burke

Genius is eternal patience. – Michelangelo

Endurance is patience concentrated. – Thomas Carlyle

Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown. – Soren Kierkegaard

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it. – Arnold H. Glasow

Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue. – Ambrose Bierce

Humility is attentive patience. – Simone Weil

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul. – Francis Bacon

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love. – Rudyard Kipling

All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer. – Thomas Fuller

Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience. – Kin Hubbard

Patience is the support of weakness impatience the ruin of strength. – Charles Caleb Colton

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought. – Isaac Newton

Bear patiently with a rival. – Ovid

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself. – Baltasar Gracian

There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience. – Jean de la Bruyere

He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience. – William Golding