1,945 Quotes About Patience

  • Author Melissa Hill
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    Bread – like real love – took time, cultivation, strong loving hands and patience. It lived, rising and growing to fruition only under the most perfect circumstances.

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  • Author J.B. McGee
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    Cultivate your craft. Water it daily, pour some tender loving care into it, and watch it grow. Remember that a plant doesn’t sprout immediately. Be patient, and know that in life you will reap what you sow.

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  • Author Nikos Kazantzakis
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    Man hurries, God does not. That is why man's works are uncertain and maimed, while God's are flawless and sure. My eyes welling with tears, I vowed never to transgress this eternal law again. Like a tree I would be blasted by wind, struck by sun and rain, and would wait with confidence; the long-desired hour of flowering and fruit would come.

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  • Author Anna M. Pratt
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    If a string is in a knot,Patience will untie it.Patience can do many things—Did you ever try it?If it was sold at any shopI should like to buy it.But you and I must find our own—No other can supply it.

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  • Author Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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    You seem to have quite a taste for discussing these horrible subjects," she said, rather scornfully; "you ought to have been a detective police officer.""I sometimes think I should have been a good one.""Why?""Because I am patient.

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