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Words of Wisdom on Patience

In developing our seminars and keynote presentations, we are fortunate to run across many words of wisdom.

If you need a refreshing thought, idea, slogan, or profound nugget for an upcoming meeting, presentation, or lunch room bulletin board, take a look at the following words of wisdom on patience.

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Random Thoughts on Patience

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 then be powerless to vex your mind.
~ Leonardo da Vinci

There will be times when loud-mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self destruct. It never fails!
~ Richard Rybolt

How poor are they who have not patience! What would did they heal but by degree.
~ William Shakespeare

Patience is passion tamed.
~ Lyman Abbott

Patience can’t be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.
~ Eknath Easwaran

If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.
~ Buddhist Proverb

A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.
~ Dutch Proverb

The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.
~ Ralph Marston

Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
~ Barbara Johnson

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!
~ Richard Cecil

Never run after a bus or a man. There will always be another one!
~ Anonymous

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

Our patience will achieve more than our force.
~ Edmund Burke

It is very strange that the years teach us patience―that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
~ Elizabeth Taylor

There are two cardinal sins from which all others spring. Impatience and Laziness.
~ Franz Kafka

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
~ Helen Keller

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
~ Isaac Newton

Patience is the companion of wisdom.
~ Saint Augustine

You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
~ Stanislaw J. Lec

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.
~ Titus Maccius Plautus

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in the one ahead.
~ Bill McGlashen

The secret of patience is doing something else in the meantime.
~ Anonymous

Patience is a virtue, Virtue is a grace; Both put together Make a very pretty face!
~ Unknown

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