1,945 Quotes About Patience

  • Author Iain M. Banks
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    Patience can be a means of letting matters mature to a proper state for action, not just a way of letting time slip away.

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  • Author Eknath Easwaran
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    Patience is an unfailing remedy for friction in personal relations. Even if a person has never won a beauty contest, has no money in the bank, can't even change a flat tire, if he or she has inexhaustible patience, then we will find that life with such a person will never grow stale.

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  • Author Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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    Waiting is an art that our impatient age has forgotten. It wants to break open the ripe fruit when it has hardly finished planting the shoot. But all too often the greedy eyes are only deceived; the fruit that seemed so precious is still green on the inside, and disrespected hands ungratefully toss aside what has so disappointed them.

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