"A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months' experience he wants first, second, third, and all time--patience." ~ Stanley Baldwin
Patience and submission are very carefully to be distinguished from cowardice and indolence. We are not to repine, but we may lawfully struggle; for the calamities of life, like the necessities of Nature, are calls to labor and diligence. ~ Samuel Johnson
To lose patience is to lose the battle. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius. ~ Benjamin Disraeli
Endurance is the crowning quality / And patience all the passion of great hearts. ~ James Russell Lowell
Patience and diligence, like faith, remove mountains. ~ William Penn
Patience makes lighter what sorrow may not heal. ~ Horace
All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer. ~ Thomas Fuller
A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. ~ Dutch Proverb
Like an old gold-panning prospector, you must resign yourself to digging up a lot of sand from which you will later patiently wash out a few minute particles of gold ore. ~ Dorothy Bryant
To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals - that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him. ~ Honore De Balzac
Learn what pitch you can hit good; then wait for that pitch. ~ Wee Willie Keeler
Patience is also a form of action. ~ Auguste Rodin
Just take your time – wave comes. Let the other guys go – catch another one. ~ Duke Kahanamoku
Talent is long patience. ~ Gustave Flaubert, Illustrated American
Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience. ~ George Louis Leclerc de Buffon
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