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Life on the farm is a school of patience;
you can't hurry the crops or make an ox in two days.

Henri Fournier Alain

Patient people enjoy the pleasure of saying to whoever is feeling anxious
about delays--restaurant servers, clerks waiting on the telephone to get
your credit card verified, dry cleaners who were sure your sweater would
be ready--"It's okay.  These things happen."  Patience, in a rushed world,
is a shared relief.  Witnesses to patient transactions, as well as
participants, all get to calm down.

Sylvia Boorstein

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself.
Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but
instantly set about remedying them--every day begin the tasks anew.

Francis de Sales

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

Saint Augustine

It does not astonish or make us angry that it takes a whole year
to bring into the house three great white peonies and two pale
blue iris.  It seems altogether right and appropriate that these
glories are earned with long patience and faith. . . . and also that
it is altogether right and appropriate that they cannot last.
Yet in our human relations we are outraged when the supreme
moments, the moments of flowering, must be waited for. . . .
and then cannot last.  We reach a summit, and then have to go down again.

May Sarton

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 be powerless to vex your mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

Fred van Amburgh

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 that there must be
time.  Let the tree first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Epictetus

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Johann von Schiller

There is no road too long to the person who advances deliberately
without undue haste; no honors too distant to the person who
prepares him or herself for them with patience.

Jean La Bruyere

Patience is neither weariness nor dreary surrender.  It is a positive virtue,
the capacity to wait for opportunity. . . .
   There are many images that portray patience:  The lioness waiting in the
high grass for her prey to pass by, making no movement for hours except for
gentle twitches of her tail.  The old monk waiting for God; the ancient eyes
filled with wisdom, his mind and body filled with tranquility.  Another image
is the picture of the slow growth of the solid oak tree.  Imperceptibly, little
by little, the acorn becomes a tree.  Slowly--that's how it becomes so strong.
   We live in a time when speed seems to be essential.  Fast trains, fast cars,
fast walking, fast-food restaurants.  Even our perception of growth is speeded
up with the use of the stop-frame camera.
   There is nothing wrong with speed in itself, but a question is forced upon us.
Does speed necessarily require us to be unreflective?  If so, then we are rushing
into lives that are not reflected upon, not examined.  This is dangerous.
Perhaps we do have to make room for patience in our lives--a little room
to breathe.  Patience.  Patience.

Edward J. Lavin

They who can have patience can have what they will.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Joseph Addison