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Wednesday, 15 October 2008
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"To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself." (Rice, Anne - Writers and Writing)

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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
A patient man is one who can put up with himself.
A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.
Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.
Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.
All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.
All things come round to him who will but wait.
All things come to him who waits -- provided he knows what he is waiting for.
An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains.
Be patient. The path of self-discipline that leads to God-realization is not an easy path: obstacles and sufferings are on the path; the latter you must bear, and the former overcome -- all by His help. His help comes only through concentration. Repetition of God's name helps concentration.
Beware the fury of a patient man.
Consider the hour-glass; there is nothing to be accomplished by rattling or shaking; you have to wait patiently until the sand, grain by grain, has run from one funnel into the other.
Dios tarda pero no olvida -- God delays but doesn't forget.
Every man must patiently bide his time. He must wait -- not in listless idleness but in constant, steady, cheerful endeavors, always willing and fulfilling and accomplishing his task, that when the occasion comes he may be equal to the occasion.
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.
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 task anew -
Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
He that can have patience can have what he will.
Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.
How poor are they that have not patience. What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.
I am patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it.
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 have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.
If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.
If I'm not back in five minutes... just wait longer!
If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives.
If you are tempted to lose patience with your fellowman; stop and think how patient God has been with you.
If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big.
In all evils which admits a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes the time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might remove the cause.
In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
Inaction may be the biggest form of action.
It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.
It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.
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.
Let this be understood, then, at starting; that the patient conquest of difficulties which rise in the regular and legitimate channels of business and enterprise is not only essential in securing the success which you seek but it is essential to that preparation of your mind, requisite for the enjoyment of your successes, and for retaining them when gained. So, day by day, and week by week; so month after month, and year after year, work on, and in that process gain strength and symmetry, and nerve and knowledge, that when success, patiently and bravely worked for, shall come, it may find you prepared to receive it and keep it,
Like farmers we need to learn that we cannot sow and reap the same day.
Little by little, through patience and repeated effort, the mind will become stilled in the Self.
Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
My son, observe the postage stamp! Its usefulness depends upon its ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.
Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.
Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; Hold fast; Hold out. Patience is genius.
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 you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
Of all the things that tax a man's patience, there's nothing to compare with a stuck zipper.
Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
Patience and shuffle the cards.
Patience and the passage of time do more than strength and fury.
Patience carries a lot of wait
Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice.
Patience in the present, faith in the future, and joy in the doing
Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
Patience is counting down without blasting off
Patience is not active; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.
Patience is passion tamed.
Patience is power; with time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in one ahead.
Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
Patience is the key to contentment.
Patience is the key to paradise.
Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.
Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength
Patience is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not.
Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow -- that is patience.
Patience makes a woman beautiful in middle age.
Patience means self-suffering.
Patience permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord when we are tossed about by suffering as if by surf. When the undertow grasps us we will realize that we are somehow being carried forward even as we tumble. We are actually being -helped even as we cry for help.
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.
Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.
Patience will achieve more than force.
Patience, money and time bring all things to past.
Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.
Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.