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Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

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

Endurance is patience concentrated.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

I have not the smarts or patience for political office.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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.