Patience

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

What I say is, patience, and shuffle the cards.

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.

Who best Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best: his state Is kingly; thousands at his bidding speed, And post o’er land and ocean without rest; They also serve who only stand and wait.

Everything comes to he who hustles while he waits.

Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.

Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

You can't break a bad habit by throwing it out the window. You've got to walk it slowly down the stairs.

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

I don’t preach patience to you, but cynicism; it is the most comforting of philosophies. You will get over your present difficulties only to run into something worse, and so on until the last sad scene. Make up your mind to it—and then make the best of it. That is, do the best you can within the limits of your chance. If you can’t write a book a year, then write one every two years .

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

He who hesitates is sometimes saved.

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

Learn diligence before speedy execution.

Possess your soul with patience.

Nor less I deem that there are Powers Which of themselves our minds impress; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness.

Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

Pacience is an heigh vertu, certeyn.

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?