more quotations on patience

One moment of patience may ward
off great disaster. One moment of
impatience may ruin a whole life.

Chinese Proverb

We use odd expressions to talk about patience that make it sound like a quantifiable,
storable commodity like olive oil, gasoline, or money in the bank: "I'm getting low
on patience." "My patience is coming to an end." "I am about to run out of patience."
. . . . I don't think we have an internal reservoir in which we store up Patience for a
time when we'll need it. I think it's more like the energy-saving water heater I have
at my house. There is no holding tank of hot water. The heater clicks on when I turn
the hot water tap on, and the cold water flowing through it gets heated en route to
the shower. It keeps on heating water as long as I'm using it, and then it clicks off
again. I don't need hot water in the middle of the night while I'm sleeping,
and I don't need Patience then, either.

Sylvia Boorstein

There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time
we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.

Linda Hogan

Practicing patience is an opportunity to let go and let God, and to transmute
negative emotions into positive virtues. With patience, you are relaxed
and centered; you have energy and attention that you can readily draw
on; and you can proceed with the assurance that things are in their rightful
place, even though you may not necessarily like them. Patience is absolutely
essential if you wish to keep treading the spiritual path. . . . Patience will keep
you centered, surrendered, detached, and content to just continue with
the assurance that, "Yes, everything in its good time."

Michael Goddart

Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they
become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety,
fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness,
and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.

Brian Adams

Patience with others is Love, Patience with self is Hope, Patience with God is Faith.

Adel Bestavros

I have just three things to teach:
Simplicity, patience, and compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
Simple in actions and in thought,
You return to the source of being.
Patient with both friends and enemies,,
You accord with the way things are.
Compassionate toward yourself,
You reconcile all beings in the world.

Tao Te Ching

If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.

Hal Borland

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

Jean de la Bruyere

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Eli Joseph Cossman

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Beware the fury of a patient man!

John Dryden

Infinite patience brings immediate results.

Wayne Dyer

Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

Jean de la Fontaine

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

Arnold H. Glasgow

Patience is the foundation of discovering simplicity. Patience is a gesture
of profound kindness. . . . Patience teaches us to seek an inner refuge
of simplicity, balance, and sensitivity even in the most turbulent moments.
It is about learning to be a good friend to ourselves. . . . Patience is one
of life's great arts, a lesson we learn not just once, but over and over.

Christina Feldman

The aster has not wasted spring and summer because it has not blossomed. It
has been all the time preparing for what is to follow, and in autumn it is
the glory of the field, and only the frost lays it low. So there are many
people who must live forty or fifty years, and have the crude sap of their
natural dispositions changed and sweetened before the blossoming time can
come; but their lives have not been wasted.

Henry Ward Beecher

One who is master of patience is master of everything else.

George Savile

No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes
or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must
be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Epictetus

Patience is never wasted; patience is a process through which
a soul passes and becomes precious. Souls who have risen above
the world's limitations and sorrows, the world's falseness and
deception, they are the souls who have passed through patience.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged
cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?

Paul Sweeney

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