"The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do."
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"There's no music in rest, but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the life melody, always talking of perseverance and courage and fortitude; but patience is the finest and worthiest part of fortitude, and the rarest, too."
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"We can do anything, or almost, but how balanced, magnanimous, and modest one has to be to do anything! And also how patient. It is as true in the arts as anywhere else."
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"Whoever knocks persistently, ends by entering."
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"Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation."
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"The balance you have between drive and patience may be your master key to success."
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"So it's been a slow process and it's taken some patience. That's why patients are called patients I think - patience is required."
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"The panic disappeared under those soothing old fingers and the breathing slowed down and stopped hurting the chest as if a fox was caught in it, and then at last Mr. Kroger began to lecture the boy as he used to, Pablo, he murmured, don't ever be so afraid of being lonely that you forget to be careful. Don't forget that you will find it sometimes but other times you won't be lucky, and those are the times when you have got to be patient, since patience is what you must have when you don't have luck."
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"Patience is the capacity to endure all that is necessary in attaining a desired end. ... Patience never forsakes the ultimate goal because the road is hard. There can be no patience without an object."
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"Let things alone; let them weigh what they will; let them soar or fall."
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"You can butcher the sheep only once. But if you are careful, you can shear the sheep every year."
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"Like Patience gazing on kings' graves, and smiling Extremity out of act."
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". . . 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."
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"[On being an actor] .nothing more than a worker in a service occupation . It's like being a waiter or a gas station attendant, but I'm waiting on 6 million people in a week if I'm lucky."
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"All you have to do is wait,” I explained. “Sit tight and wait for the right moment. Not try to change anything by force, just watch the drift of things. Make an effort to cast a fair eye on everything. If you do that, you just naturally know what to do. But everyone’s always too busy. They’re too talented, their schedules are too full. They’re too interested in themselves to think about what’s fair."
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"Patience asks us to live the moment to the fullest, to be completely present to the moment, to taste the here and now, to be where we are."
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"Let nothing disturb thee, Nothing affright thee; All things are passing; God never changeth; Patient endurance Attaineth to all things; Who God possesseth In nothing is wanting; Alone God sufficeth."
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"Patience et longueur de temps Font plus que force ni que rage. Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage."
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"She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte."
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"The enemy is the necessary condition for practicing patience."
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