PATIENCE

"Patience is a minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue."  

-  Ambrose Bierce

 

"All things come to him who waits - provided he knows what he is waiting for." 

-  Woodrow T. Wilson

"Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content." 

-  Helen Keller

 

"Genius is eternal patience." 

-  Michelangelo

 

"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." 

-  Saint Francis De Sales

 

"He that can have patience can have what he will." 

-  Benjamin Franklin

 

"If you add a little to a little, and then do it again, soon that little shall be much." 

-   Hesiod

 

"Patience makes lighter what sorrow may not heal."  

-   Horace

 

"Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success." 

-   Napoleon Hill

 

"Regardless of how much patience we have, we would prefer never to use any of it." 

-   James T. O'Brien

 

"Someone has defined genius as intensity of purpose: the ability to do, the patience to wait... Put these together and you have genius, and you have achievement." 

-   Leo J. Muir

 

"Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others."  

-  John F. Kennedy

 

"Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Be still and allow the mud to settle." 

-  Lao Tzu

 

"You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence." 

-   Robert Frost