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"The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments."	William Edgar Borah
"A dream can be nurtured over years and years and then flourish rapidly. . . . Be patient. It will happen for you. Sooner or later, life will get weary of beating on you and holding the door shut on you, and then it will let you in and throw you a real party!"	Les(ter Louis) Brown
"There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience."	Jean de La Bruyère
"When clouds form in the skies we know that rain will follow but we must not wait for it. Nothing will be achieved by attempting to interfere with the future before the time is ripe. Patience is needed."	I Ching
"The greatest power is often simple patience."	E(li) Joseph Cossman
"Beware the fury of a patient man!"	John Dryden
"Infinite patience brings immediate results."	Wayne W(alter) Dyer
"Patience and time do more than strength or passion."	Jean de La Fontaine
"It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace."	André Gide
"What is a minority? The chosen heroes of this earth have been in a minority. There is not a social, political, or religious privilege that you enjoy today that was not bought for you by the blood and tears and patient suffering of the minority. It is the minority that have stood in the van of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world."	John B. Gough
"The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with their shirt sleeves."	Garth Henrichs
"Evil is a fact not to be explained away, but to be accepted; and accepted not to be endured, but to be conquered. It is a challenge neither to our reason nor to our patience, but to our courage."	John Andrew Holmes, Jr.
"The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But we also know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance."	Thomas Henry Huxley
"With love and patience, nothing is impossible."	Daisaku Ideda
"Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we are driven out of Paradise; because of impatience we cannot return."	Franz Kafka
"We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world."	Helen Adams Keller
"Carry the cross patiently, and with perfect submission; and in the end it shall carry you."	Thomas à Kempis
"hy doesn't the past decently bury itself, instead of sitting waiting to be admired by the present?"	D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence
"If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?"	Stephen Levine
"I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable."	Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh
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1 Timothy 6:11 Bible	Adel Bestavros	Alain
André Gide	Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh	Arnold H. Glasgow
Baltasar Gracian	Benjamin Haydon	Bible
Clive Staples Lewis	Daisaku Ideda	Dr. Samuel Johnson
D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence	Edmund Burke	Elizabeth Montagu
E(li) Joseph Cossman	Franklin P. Adams	Franklin P. Jones
Franz Kafka	Garth Henrichs	George Jackson
George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon	George W. Cecil	Hal Borland
Harrison Ford	Helen Adams Keller	Herbert Hensley Henson
I Ching	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]	Jean de La Bruyère
Jean de La Fontaine	Jean Kerr	Jerry Coleman
Jesse Louis Jackson	Jim	John Andrew Holmes, Jr.
John B. Gough	John Dryden	John Quincy Adams
Joseph Addison	Leonardo da Vinci	Les(ter Louis) Brown
Marcus Aelius Aurelius	Martin Luther	Napolean Hill
Neill MacRae	Olga Brouman	Peter Marshall
Phyllis McGinley	Proverbs 25:15 Bible	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Saint Augustine	Sarah Brady	Sir Francis Bacon
Sir Isaac Newton	Stephen Levine	Stephen R. Covey
Thomas Henry Huxley	Thomas à Kempis	Victor Hugo
Wayne W(alter) Dyer	William Shakespeare	William Edgar Borah
William H(oward) Gass	Woody Allen