"Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the……" — Charles Caleb Colton
"Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength."
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Charles Caleb Colton
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484 Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Colton has 484 quotes on this site.
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Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
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We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.
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Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that…
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Early rising not only gives us more life in the same number of years, but adds, likewise, to their number;…
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Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us…
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There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
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Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud…
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To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.
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Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness.
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Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but, unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but…
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We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine, but if defer…
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Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to…
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Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks…
— Jimmy Breslin
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Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this…
— James Keller
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When on life's journey it becomes our lot to travel with criticism of skeptics, the hate of some, the rejection…
— Unknown Author
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The sharpest sting of adversity it borrows from our own impatience.
— George Horne
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Never speak out of anger, Never act out of fear, Never choose from impatience, But wait... and peace will appear.
— Guy Finley
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Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.
— Rita Mae Brown
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What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.
— May Sarton
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Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.
— Larry Wall
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Force I will meet with gentleness; impatience with patience.
— Walter Russell
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A criminal trial is like a cultural in-flight test in which society projects its own history, fears, impatience, insolence, clemency,…
— Ron Franscell
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Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience. Once implemented they can be…
— Hyman Rickover
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