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Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau on patience

For anything worth having one must pay the price and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
John Burroughs on patience

Abused patience turns to fury.
Thomas Fuller on patience

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.
Elbert Hubbard on patience

Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.
Phillips Brooks on patience

Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.
Saint Francis de Sales on patience

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
George Savile on patience

The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol on patience

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
Edith Sitwell on patience

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 on patience

Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
Saadi on patience

Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Edmund Burke on patience

Genius is eternal patience.
Michelangelo on patience

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 on patience

I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.
Margaret Thatcher on patience

Endurance is patience concentrated.
Thomas Carlyle on patience

Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.
Soren Kierkegaard on patience

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.
Arnold H. Glasow on patience

Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
Ambrose Bierce on patience

I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.
Jesse Jackson on patience