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1. "No time for books, no patience. What good would they do? They don't tell you how to survive." "No, they don't do that. They are reason, not tool." Vadim smirked. "They hold more truth than Pravda. Politburo can't lie in Pushkin. Pushkin was there before we became Soviets. It means…if we have past, we have future." (…) "At least I know that there are many truths. It's about learning to think different thoughts. Know things that you never felt. You could know what being rich feels like, or being in love, without ever getting real feeling."
Author: Aleksandr Voinov
2. "Technology offers us a unique opportunity, though rarely welcome, to practice patience."
Author: Allan Lokos
3. "When we teach a child patience we offer them the gift of a dignified life."
Author: Allan Lokos
4. "I formed the impression that nature had given him little patience for fools, while society had cruelly decreed that he spend a great deal of time in their company. Consequently he lived most of his life in a state of simmering annoyance."
Author: Andrew Killeen
5. "My love," he said with great patience, "you're hair is a rat's nest. Your eyes are swollen from weeping, your nose is red, your clothing is tattered, and you face is streaked with mud. You are still beyond passing fair, but not enough to tempt my immortal soul." He wiped a patch of mud from her delicate cheekbone. "I love you because you have a fierce heart, a brave soul, a tender touch, and woman's grace. I love you for a thousand reasons that I cant even begin to understand, when I didn't want to love you at all. I love your mind and your heart and soul, and yes, I love your pretty face as well."
Author: Anne Stuart
6. "Typically, people who exercise, start eating better and becoming more productive at work. They smoke less and show more patience with colleagues and family. They use their credit cards less frequently and say they feel less stressed. Exercise is a keystone habit that triggers widespread change."
Author: Charles Duhigg
7. "Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly communication; this, joined with patience and kindness, will seldom fail with the natives of the interior."
Author: Charles Sturt
8. "As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind."
Author: Cleveland Amory
9. "He didn't say a lot so I tend to remember what he did say. And I don't remember that he had a lot of patience with havin to say things twice so I learned to listen the first time."
Author: Cormac McCarthy
10. "On my best days, I fancy myself a combination of Dad's persistence/patience and Mom's toughness/skepticism."
Author: David Einhorn
11. "How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?"
Author: Elbert Hubbard
12. "Patience does not mean to passively endure. It means to be farsighted enough to trust the end result of a process. What does patience mean? It means to look at the thorn and see the rose, to look at the night and see the dawn. Impatience means to be so shortsighted as to not be able to see the outcome. The lovers of God never run out of patience, for they know that time is needed for the crescent moon to become full."
Author: Elif Shafak
13. "It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting."
Author: Elizabeth Taylor
14. "Frustration, too evident in the cement clench of his jaw.Distance, the ethereal detached from the flesh and bone.Impatience, in the soft thrum of his heel as we sit in silence."
Author: Ellen Hopkins
15. "[She] lost her patience, a thing she was all too prone to misplacing."
Author: Gail Carriger
16. "Summer was on the way; Jem and I awaited it with impatience. Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the tree house; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill."
Author: Harper Lee
17. "Justice is not Healing. Healing cometh only by suffering and patience, and maketh no demand, not even for Justice. Justice worketh only within the bonds of things as they are... and therefore though Justice is itself good and desireth no further evil, it can but perpetuate the evil that was, and doth not prevent it from the bearing of fruit in sorrow."
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
18. "Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and strive for patience, if you can."
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
19. "There is a patience of the wild--dogged, tireless, persistent as life itself--that holds motionless for endless hours the spider in its web, the snake in its coils, the panther in its ambuscade; this patience belongs peculiarly to life when it hunts its living food;"
Author: Jack London
20. "You should know by now that it takes patience and a forgiving attitude to be friends with Travis. He's his own universe."I shook my head. "That's the Travis everyone else sees…not the Travis I know."
Author: Jamie McGuire
21. "You are in a melancholy humour, and fancy that any one unlike yourself must be happy. But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by every body at times, whatever be their education or state. Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience — or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope."
Author: Jane Austen
22. "Yeah. I know why she cuts. I just don't know the seed-reason. It's deep inside her, and it'll take time and patience to get it out of her."
Author: Jasinda Wilder
23. "The meditative mind sees disagreeable or agreeable things with equanimity, patience, and good-will. Transcendent knowledge is seeing reality in utter simplicity. (146)"
Author: Jean Yves Leloup
24. "Excellence does not come easy for quickly- An Excellent education does not, a successful mission does not, a strong, loving marriage does not, rewarding personal relationships do not. It is simply a truism that nothing very valuable can come without significant sacrifice, effort, and patience on our part."
Author: Jeffery R Holland
25. "?True love isn't expressed in passionately whispered words an intimate kiss or a embrace; before two people are married, love is expressed in self-control, patience, even words left unsaid."
Author: Joshua Harris
26. "Patience is a fruit of the spirit that grows only under trial. It is useless to pray for patience. Well, actually I encourage you to pray for patience, but I'll tell you what you'll get TRIALS!"
Author: Joyce Meyer
27. "Everything has a way of coming full circle. It takes patience and perseverance to see a dream through...to close that circle. Because some dreams, like some circles, can be much bigger than others."
Author: Karen Dale Trask
28. "Coaching takes patience. I'm more enthused when teaching players who want it versus when I have to."
Author: Kevin Garnett
29. "Yes, Lord. I want Your patience to invade my desire to fly off the handle." "Yes, Lord. I want Your perspective to keep my emotions in check." "Yes, Lord. I want Your provision so things don't seem so overwhelming." "Yes, Lord. I want Your courage to do what I feel You calling me to do." "Yes, Lord. I want and need more of You in every moment."
Author: Lysa TerKeurst
30. "Demalion, we're alive.' Pantera's voice was unusually clipped, as if his patience had finally run to an end. ‘If we were trying to get ourselves killed, we three would have managed it, I think. Two officers of the Fifth and a spy trained by Seneca could manage that much at least."
Author: M.C. Scott
31. "I've been praying to Jesus and the Holy Ghost for patience and I have also mentioned that it would help if I did not have frizzy hair."
Author: Margaret Sartor
32. "As for me, I was at twenty what I am today, but not consistently so. Not everything in me was bad, but it could have been: the good or the better parts also lent strength to the worse. I look back with shame on my ignorance of the world, which I thought I knew, and on my impatience, and on a kind of frivolous ambition and gross avidity which I then had."
Author: Marguerite Yourcenar
33. "Winning her would be like coaxing a butterfly to land on his hand. Patience, gentleness, and perhaps a prayer or two would be required."
Author: Mary Jo Putney
34. "Experience has further taught me this, that we ruin ourselves by impatience."
Author: Michel De Montaigne
35. "Genius is eternal patience."
Author: Michelangelo
36. "I'm not really easy to live with! There needs to be unlimited patience and unconditional love. Men I've known before loved my independent spirit and were proud of my success, to the point that they'd become jealous of the time I devote to my career."
Author: Milla Jovovich
37. "What are the conditions that make for the superiority of an army? Its internal organization, military habits in officers and men, the confidence of each in themselves; that is to say, bravery, patience, and all that is contained in the idea of moral means."
Author: Napoleon
38. "In a manner familiar to anyone who had ever packed a car for a family trip, genial confusion gave way to impatience, then furious ultimatums, then ill-advised snap decisions."
Author: Neal Stephenson
39. "I make a mean pecan pie, and I have a great recipe for pralines - also using pecans. Pralines take a lot of patience, and patience is a must in the duck blind as well as in the kitchen. Good things come to those who wait."
Author: Phil Robertson
40. "Loving is effortless.. while Relationships, they require your time and patience... the two things we all lack.."
Author: Sanhita Baruah
41. "Life is a test. It is only a test--meaning that's all it is. Nothing more, but nothing less. It is a test of our convictions and priorities, our faith and faithfulness, our patience and resilience, and in the end, our ultimate desires. It is a test to determine if we want to be part of the kingdom of God more than we want anything else."
Author: Sheri L. Dew
42. "Success is easy with just a prayer, encouragement and patience!"
Author: Sonia Dea Octalia
43. "If failure has the strength to turn your life into bitterness itself, then patience has the strength to turn your life into the sweetest joy. Do not surrender to fate after a single failure. Failure, at most, precedes success."
Author: Sri Chinmoy
44. "After the torchlight red on sweaty facesAfter the frosty silence in the gardensAfter the agony in stony placesThe crying and the shoutingPrison and place and reverberationOf thunder of spring over distant mountainsHe was living is now deadWe who were living are now dyingWith a little patience"
Author: T.S. Eliot
45. "Olivia. I've lost her three times. The first was to impatience. The second was to a lie so dense we couldn't work our way through it, and the third time - this time - I've lost her to Noah."
Author: Tarryn Fisher
46. "Patience is the only way you can endure the gray periods."
Author: Teri Hatcher
47. "Hope is patience with the lamp lit."
Author: Tertullian
48. "Your testing my patience here, duchess," he growled. "If you have any doubt about my ability to fuck the ever-loving sarcasm right out of you, I'll be more than happy to clear it up."
Author: Tessa Bailey
49. "Give Happiness, Patience, kindness, and Care, and the PAIN goes away.Then only LOVE remains..."
Author: Tsem Tulku Rinpoche
50. "Impatience is a virtue."
Author: Ursula Burns
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