Patience

They also serve who only stand and wait.

But on occasion’s forelock watchful wait.

Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast.

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

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time.

An ounce of patience is worth more than tons of preaching.

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

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.

Possess your soul with patience.

Arm th’ obdur’d breast With stubborn patience as with triple steel.

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.

I will be the pattern of all patience.

Patience, thou young and rose-lipp’d cherubin.

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

Season your admiration for a while.

Therefore love moderately; long love doth so; Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.

Pacience is an heigh vertu, certeyn.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

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

A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.

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 .

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.