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Short Patience Quotes

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

William Shakespeare

We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

James Russell Lowell

It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.

George Santayana

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied.

Pierre Corneille

Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.

Inspirational Patience Quotes

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

Mohandas Gandhi

Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.

Baltasar Gracian

I believe there's too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.

William Shakespeare

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?

Andrew Greeley

Deep Patience Quotes

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

Julius Caesar

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.

Listen, wait, and be patient. Every shaman knows you have to deal with the fire that's in your audience's eye.

Ken Kesey

In America, we have to learn to be patient enough to figure out what somebody is saying. Somebody might actually be saying something.

Stanley Crouch

It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.

William Osler

Present law has a process to ascertain whether or not a patient is in a persistent vegetative state, and it should not matter what politicians think.

Bobby Scott

The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.

Paracelsus

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

Francis Quarles

More Patience Quotes

The patience of the American public with dilatory diplomatic delays will be very limited.

Tom Lantos

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.

I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.

Charles Schumer

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

John Updike

The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.

All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.

Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Benjamin Franklin

The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.

William Osler

Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

B. C. Forbes

Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.

Soren Kierkegaard

All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.

Thomas Kempis

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

Thomas Hardy

I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.

Robert Falcon Scott

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

John Quincy Adams

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Rudyard Kipling

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.

George Savile

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

Leo Tolstoy

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.

Laurence J. Peter

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

Evelyn Underhill

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

Isaac Newton

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

That's why I never became a director. I never had patience with people.

Ray Harryhausen

Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.

Matthew Arnold

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Heraclitus

I'm not someone who's endlessly patient and wonderful.

Nigella Lawson

Everything is out there if you know how to find it, and have the patience. I don't and haven't, but that's my problem.

Tom Holt

You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.

Stanislaw Lec

Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.

Margaret J. Wheatley

The principle part of faith is patience.

George MacDonald

Medical liability reform is not a Republican or Democrat issue or even a doctor versus lawyer issue. It is a patient issue.

John Ensign

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.

Wilkie Collins

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

Edith Sitwell

There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.

Jean de la Bruyere

Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.

Homer

Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.

Saint Francis de Sales

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.

Harriet Tubman

The punishment should fit the crime and if a doctor or drug company does harm knowingly or negligently to a patient they should be compensated to make them whole.

Corrine Brown

I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.

It sets its face rightfully against the doctrines of the Anarchist and the Communist, who seek to solve the social problems not by patient endeavor, but by brutal destruction.

Henry Cabot Lodge

The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

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