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

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.

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.

Great towers take time to construct.

Good things come to those who hustle

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

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.

. . . 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.

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.

In times of uncertainty, wait. Always, if you have any doubt, wait. Do not force yourself to any action. If you have a restraint in your spirit, wait until all is clear, and do not go against it.

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.

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.

I think patience is a skill and I wish I had it.

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

I think the Iraqi people have shown extraordinary patience and courage in the last few months. They have really put a political system on the way to success, to a real democracy here.

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

It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

It's not that I'm so smart.

It's a war of attrition. If you have patience and a modicum of faith in yourself your chances are not too bad.

It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

Just take your time - wave comes. Let the other guys go, catch another one.

I've worked so hard to eliminate the inner geek from my life. I suddenly realize I have no patience for those people who still have their geeks showing. Now I see why being 'normal' has been so important to me.

Kindness and courage can repair time's faults, And serving him breeds patience and courtesy In us, light sojourners and passing subjects.

Know full well that patience is the best means of succeeds.

Know it for certain that without steady devotion for the Guru and unflinching patience and perseverance, nothing is to be achieved. You must have strict morality.

Let me look upward into the branches of the flowering oak and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well.

Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.

Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All things pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for.