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Be assured that every man's success is in proportion to his average ability. The meadow flowers spring and bloom where the watersannually deposit their slime, not where they reach in some freshet only. A man is not his hope, nor his despair, nor yet his past deed. We know not yet what we have done, still less what we are doing. Wait till evening, and other parts of our day's work will shine than we had thought at noon, and we shall discover the real purport of our toil. As when the farmer has reached the end of the furrow and looks back, he can tell best where the pressed earth shines most.

Being empowered includes developing the powerful qualities that lead human beings to cultivate wellness and healing. And those are the same qualities that enhance all relationships on earth and reduce stress (which seems to be the largest precursor to disease)-gentle ness, calmness, patience, humility, compassion, and gratitude.

Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.

Constant repetition of tongue-twisters was like lifting weights for me, but patience and persistence have paid off.

By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.

By diligence and patience, the mouse bit in two the cable.

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

Endurance is the free companion of Sorrow, and Patience her master.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

Every relationship has a spiritual purpose that helps us grow and become stronger. Sometimes, our most challenging relationships bring the greatest personal blessings. From them we learn about forgiveness, patience, and other virtues.

Ever since I can remember, I've always wanted to tell stories, but I never had the patience to sit down at a typewriter and write short stories or anything like that. I started writing songs as a way of communicating ideas the best way I could.

Everyone is given one gift, a reason for being, and it's our obligation to do something with it. Obviously, it's a challenge - but if you're not taking the bull by the horns, I have no patience for you. You're just taking up space.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

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

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.

Every work has got to pass through hundreds of difficulties before succeeding. Those that persevere will see the light, sooner or later.

For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching has become a regular habit, until he is able to admit and accept what he finds, and until he patiently and persistently tries to correct what is wrong.

For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill.

Had it pleas'd heaven To try me with affliction * * * I should have found in some place of my soul A drop of patience.

Good things come to those who hustle

Great towers take time to construct.

. . . Have patience and be faithful unto death. Do not fight among yourselves. Be perfectly pure in money dealings. . . . We will do great things yet. . . . So long as you have faith and honesty and devotion, everything will prosper.

Have fire and spread all over. Work, work. Be the servant while leading, be unselfish, and never listen to one friend in private accusing another. Have infinite patience, and success is yours.

He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.

He who has infinite patience and infinite energy at his back, will alone succeed.

Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.

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

If I could have one prayer answered, I would pray for patience. I move so fast sometimes. I try to slow down.

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.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

I do oppose My patience to his fury, and am arm'd To suffer, with a quietness of spirit, The very tyranny and rage of his.

If you have infinite patience and perseverance, success is bound to come. No mistake in that.

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.

If, like the prophet Noah, you have patience in the distress of the flood, Calamity turns aside, and the desire of a thousand years comes forth.

If, through the years, the Cross in the life of the believer had been adhered to as strenuously as the Cross for salvation, the Church would not today be so plagued with modernistic infidelity.

If you pray about it don't worry about it. If you're going to worry about it don't pray about it.

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

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

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

I have not the smarts or patience for political office.

I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory.

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.

Infinite patience, infinite purity, and infinite perseverance are the secret of success in a good cause.

I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves.

It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait, simply wait much of the time - until my instincts assured me that I had assembled my materials in proper order for a final welding into their natural form.

It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.

Impatience makes us get ahead of ourselves, reaching out for something in the future and not really being content with where we are, here and now.

In movies, there are some things the French do that Americans are increasingly incapable of doing. One is honoring the complexities of youth. It's a quiet, difficult undertaking, requiring subtlety in a filmmaker and perception and patience from us.