"Wise to resolve, and patient to perform." — Homer

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• Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time. — Arthur Ashe
• Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience… — Wystan Hugh Auden
• Patience is the companion of wisdom. — Saint Augustine
• Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul. — Francis Bacon
• Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. — John Quincy Adams
• Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience… — Joseph Addison
• It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man… — Henry Ward Beecher
• Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while. — Ambrose Bierce
• Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue. — Ambrose Bierce
• When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell… — Jim Bishop
• When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off.… — Corrie Ten Boom
• Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. — Hal Borland

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