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Patience Quotes - Page 22

My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.

"Portrait of the artist: Vanessa Paradis, actor and musician". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2011.

Patience attains All that it strives for. He who has God Finds he lacks nothing: God alone suffices.

Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1946). “Book of the foundations. Minor prose works. Poems. Documents. Indices”

But the waiting time, my brothers, Is the hardest time of all.

Sarah Doudney (1871). “Psalms of life”, p.91

For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill.

Tobias George Smollett, Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith (1810). “The Poetical Works of Doctors Smollett, Johnson, and Goldsmith”

The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly upon unassisted genius and natural sagacity.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.237

But there are times when patience proves at fault.

Robert Browning (1835). “Paracelsus”, p.90

Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.

Neil Gaiman (2009). “Anansi Boys”, p.21, Harper Collins

Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.

Matthew Arnold (1853). “Poems ... A new edition”, p.212