The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.
Like patience on a monument, / Smiling at grief.
We should manage our fortune like our constitution; enjoy it when good, have patience when bad, and never apply violent remedies but in cases of necessity.
Een once geduld is meer dan een pond verstand=--One ounce of patience is worth more than a pound of brains.
Patientia vinces=--You will conquer by patience.
Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
~Patience.~--There is one form of hope which is never unwise, and which certainly does not diminish with the increase of knowledge. In that form it changes its name and we call it patience.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
The principal part of faith is patience.
Man little knows what calamities are beyond his patience to bear till he tries them.
Arm th' obdur'd breast With stubborn patience as with triple steel.
Nicht Kunst and Wissenschaft allein, / Geduld will bei dem Werke sein=--Not art and science only, but patience will be required for the work.
We meet with contradictions everywhere. If only two persons are together they mutually afford each other opportunities of exercising patience, and even when one is alone there will still be a necessity for this virtue, so true it is that our miserable life is full of crosses.--ST. VINCENT DE PAUL.
Il mondo e di chi ha pazienza=--The world is his who has patience.
Man without patience is the lamp without oil, and pride in a rage is a bad counsellor.
'T is all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow, But no man's virtue nor sufficiency To be so moral when he shall endure The like himself.
Difficulties can be overcome only by patience.
Pour forth thy fervours for a healthful mind, / Obedient passions, and a will resigned; / For love, which scarce collective man can fill; / For patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ill; / For faith, that, panting for a happier seat, / Counts death kind Nature's signal of retreat.
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. All these and other factors combined, if the circumstances are right, can teach and can lead to rebirth.
This flour of wifly patience.
Patientia l?sa fit furor=--Patience abused becomes fury.
In all straits the good behave themselves with meekness and patience.
We can obtain no reward without merit, and no merit without patience.-- ST. ALPHONSUS.
How do we have patience with a process that is so uncomfortable and so slow that it seems like it will always stay the same? I think we can only live out that question in our hearts.
You must accustom yourself more and more to the thought that here is not our abiding city, that all that we call ours here is only lent, not given us, and that if the sorrow for those we have lost remains the same, we must yet acknowledge with gratitude to God the great blessing of having enjoyed so many years with those whom He gave us, as parents, or children, or friends. One forgets so easily the happy years one has had with those who were the nearest to us. Even these years of happiness, however short they may have been, were only given us, we had not deserved them. I know well there is no comfort for this pain of parting: the wound always remains, but one learns to bear the pain, and learns to thank God for what He gave, for the beautiful memories of the past, and the yet more beautiful hope for the future. If a man has lent us anything for several years, and at last takes it back, he expects gratitude, not anger; and if God has more patience with our weakness than men have, yet murmurs and complaints for the life which He measured out for us as is best for us, are not what He expected from us. A spirit of resignation to God's will is our only comfort, the only relief under the trials God lays upon us, and with such a spirit the heaviest as well as the lightest trials of life are not only bearable, but useful, and gratitude to God and joy in life and death remain untroubled.
Fury wasteth, as patience lasteth.
Enter into the sublime patience of the Lord. Be charitable in view of it. God can afford to wait; why cannot we, since we have Him to fall back upon? Let patience have her perfect work, and bring forth her celestial fruits.--_G. MacDonald._
Whosoever hath not patience, neither doth be possess philosophy.
If a man wound you with injuries, meet him with patience; hasty words rankle the wound, soft language dresses it, forgiveness cures it, and oblivion takes away the scar.
Glaube nur, du hast viel gethan / Wenn dir Geduld gewohnest an=--Assure yourself you have accomplished no small feat if only you have learned patience. _Goethe._ [Greek: Glauk' Athenaze]--Owls to Athens.
La patience est l'art d'esperer=--Patience is the art of hoping.
Sort thy heart to patience; / These few days' wonder will be quickly worn.= 2
If humble souls are contradicted, they remain calm; if they are calumniated, they suffer with patience; if they are little esteemed, neglected, or forgotten, they consider that their due; if they are weighed down with occupations, they perform them cheerfully.--ST. VINCENT DE PAUL.
Good shepherd, tell this youth what 'tis to love.... It is to be all made of sighs and tears.... It is to be all made of faith and service.... It is to be all made of fantasy, / All made of passion, and all made of wishes; / All adoration, duty, and observance; / All humbleness, all patience, and impatience; / All purity, all trial, all observance.
For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill.
Leichter tragt, was er tragt, / Wer Geduld zur Burde legt=--He bears what he bears more lightly who adds patience to the burden.
Never a tear bedims the eye / That time and patience will not dry; / Never a lip is curved in pain / That can't be kissed into smiles again.
The world is for him who has patience.
We must have patience--and we all cling to life as long as there are those who love us here. Those who love us there are always ours. Nothing is lost in the world. How it will be, we know not, but if we have recognised the working of a divine wisdom and love here on earth, we can take comfort, and wait patiently for that which is to come.
The gods are long-suffering; but the law from the beginning was, He that will not work shall perish from the earth; and the patience of the gods has limits.
Love is PATIENCE. This is the normal attitude of Love; Love passive, Love waiting to begin; not in a hurry; calm; ready to do its work when the summons comes, but meantime wearing the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit. The Greatest Thing in the World.
Durum! Sed levius fit patientia / Quicquid corrigere est nefas=--'Tis hard! But that which we are not permitted to correct is rendered lighter by patience.
The greatest prayer is patience.
A good neighbour is he who is not only harmless, but bears harm with patience.
The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient... Patience, patience, patience, is what the sea teaches. Patience and faith. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach — waiting for a gift from the sea.
On prend souvent l'indolence pour la patience=--Indolence is often taken for patience.
Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield,But to my own strength. Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved,But for the patience to win my freedom.
_Duke._ And what 's her history? _Vio._ A blank, my lord. She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief.
Certainly while a man is painting he should not be loth to hear every opinion: since we know well that a man, although he be not a painter, is cognizant of the forms of another man, and will be able to judge them, whether he is hump-backed or has a shoulder too high or too low, or whether he has a large mouth or nose, or other defects. And if we know that men are capable of giving a correct judgement on the works of nature, much more ought we to acknowledge their competence to judge our faults, since we know how greatly a man may be deceived in {114} his own work; and if thou art not conscious of this in thyself, study it in others and thou wilt profit by their faults. Therefore be desirous to bear with patience the opinions of others, and consider and reflect well whether he who blames has good ground or not to blame thee, and if thou thinkest that he has, amend thy work; and if not, act as though thou hadst not heard him, and if he should be a man thou esteemest show him by reasoning where his mistake lies.
Meekness is not mere white-facedness, a mere contemplative virtue; it is maintaining peace and patience in the midst of pelting provocations.
In Gluck Vorsichtigkeit, in Ungluck Geduld=--In good fortune, prudence; in bad, patience.
Love yet lives, and patience shall find rest.
Purity, patience, and perseverance are the three essentials to success, and above all, love.
Levius fit patientia / Quicquid corrigere est nefas=--Whatever cannot be amended becomes easier to bear if we exercise patience.
Fortify courage with the true rampart of patience.
Most potent, grave, and reverend signiors, My very noble and approv'd good masters, That I have ta'en away this old man's daughter, It is most true; true, I have married her: The very head and front of my offending Hath this extent, no more. Rude am I in my speech, And little bless'd with the soft phrase of peace: For since these arms of mine had seven years' pith, Till now some nine moons wasted, they have used Their dearest action in the tented field, And little of this great world can I speak, More than pertains to feats of broil and battle, And therefore little shall I grace my cause In speaking for myself. Yet, by your gracious patience, I will a round unvarnish'd tale deliver Of my whole course of love.
The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.
"In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience."
In order to bear our afflictions with patience, it is very useful to read the lives and legends of the saints who endured great torments for Jesus Christ.--ST. TERESA.
Gedult gaat boven geleerdheid=--Patience excels learning.
All men commend patience, though few be willing to practise it.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
'Tis all men's office to speak patience to those that wring under the load of sorrow; but no man's virtue nor sufficiency to be so moral when he shall endure the like himself.--_Shakespeare._
~Diet.~--Regimen is better than physic. Every one should be his own physician. We ought to assist, and not to force nature: but more especially we should learn to suffer, grow old, and die. Some things are salutary, and others hurtful. Eat with moderation what you know by experience agrees with your constitution. Nothing is good for the body but what we can digest. What medicine can procure digestion? Exercise. What will recruit strength? Sleep. What will alleviate incurable evils? Patience.--_Voltaire._
How poor are they that have not patience! / What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.
Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the king's English.
He that gets patience, and the blessing which / Preachers conclude with, hath not lost his pains.
Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet and from it learn the all.
Furor fit l?sa s?pius patientia=--Patience, when outraged often, is converted into rage.
In doubtful matters courage may do much; in desperate, patience.
There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honours too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.
That which in mean men we entitle patience, / Is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.
If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification. Time takes away as much as it gives.
Le genie c'est la patience=--Genius is just patience.
Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.
There are two kinds of patience--one is for something which you desire, the other in something which you hate; and he is a strong man who can combine them both.
How poor are they that have not patience!
He who suffers in patience, suffers less and saves his soul. He who suffers impatiently, suffers more and loses his soul.--ST. ALPHONSUS.
There's no music in a "rest," that I know of, 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.--_Ruskin._
This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.
Keep me in patience; and, with ripened time, / Unfold the evil which is here wrapt up / In countenance.
The fortitude of a Christian consists in patience.
Each man can learn something from his neighbour; at least he can learn to have patience with him--to live and let live.
Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all.
And you who say that it would be better to see practical anatomy than drawings of it, would be right if it were possible to see all the things which are shown in such drawings in a single drawing, in which you, with all your skill, will not see nor obtain knowledge of more than a few veins; and to obtain true and complete knowledge of these veins I have destroyed more than ten human bodies, destroying all the other limbs, and removing, down to its minutest particles, the whole of the flesh which surrounds these veins, without letting them bleed save for the insensible bleeding of the capillary veins. And as one body did not suffice for so long a time I had to proceed with several bodies by degrees until I finished by acquiring perfect knowledge, and this I {112} repeated twice to see the differences. And if you have a love for such things you may be prevented by disgust, and if this does not prevent you, you may be prevented by fear of living at night in company with such corpses, which are cut up and flayed and fearful to see; and if this does not prevent, you may not have a sufficient mastery of drawing for such a demonstration, and if you have the necessary mastery of drawing, it may not be combined with the knowledge of perspective; and if it were you might lack the power of geometrical demonstration, and the calculation of forces, and of the strength of the muscles, and perhaps you will lack patience and consequently diligence. As to whether these qualities are to be found in me or not the hundred and twenty books I have composed will pronounce the verdict Yes or No. Neither avarice nor negligence, but time has hindered me in these. Farewell.
La patience est le remede le plus sure contre les calomnies: le temps, tot ou tard, decouvre la verite=--Patience is the surest antidote against calumny; time, sooner or later, will disclose the truth.
As patience leads to peace, and study to science, so are humiliations the path that leads to humility.--ST. BERNARD.
Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper / Sprinkle cool patience.
Whatever happens, science may bide her time in patience and in confidence.
Little of this great world can I speak, / More than pertains to feats of broil and battle; / And, therefore, little shall I grace my cause / In speaking for myself. Yet by your gracious patience, / I will a round unvarnish'd tale deliver / Of my whole course of love.
Prudens qui patiens=--He is prudent who has patience.
Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
The device of a man who hath no device is patience.
Judge not the preacher.... Do not grudge / To pick out treasures from an earthen pot. / The worst speak something good; if all want sense, / God takes a text and preacheth patience.
Qui se ultro morti offerant, facilius reperiuntur, quam qui dolorem patienter ferant=--It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die than who will endure pain with patience.
Il n'y a point de chemin trop long a qui marche lentement et sans se presser, il n'y a point d'avantages trop eloignes a qui s'y prepare par la patience=--No road is too long for him who advances slowly and does not hurry, and no attainment is beyond his reach who equips himself with patience to achieve it.
La patience est amere, mais le fruit en est doux=--Patience is bitter, but it yields sweet fruit.
She pined in thought, / And with a green and yellow melancholy. / She sat like patience on a monument, / Smiling at grief.
Few men know how to live. We grow up at random, carrying into mature life the merely animal methods and motives which we had as little children. And it does not occur to us that all this must be changed; that much of it must be reversed; that life is the finest of the Fine Arts; that it has to be learned with life-long patience, and that the years of our pilgrimage are all too short to master it triumphantly. Pax Vobiscum, p. 31.
Le genie n'est autre chose qu'une grande aptitude a la patience=--Genius is nothing else than a sovereign capacity for patience.
Calmly take what ill betideth; Patience wins the crown at length Rich repayment him abideth Who endures in quiet strength. Brave the tamer of the lion; Brave whom conquered kingdoms praise; Bravest he who rules his passions, Who his own impatience sways.
A young woman in love always looks like patience on a monument smiling at grief.
How comes it that we have so much patience with those who are maimed in body, and so little with those who are defective in mind? Because a cripple recognises that we have the true use of our legs, but the fool maintains that we are they whose understanding halts; were it not so we should feel pity and not anger.
We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon. In an instant age, perhaps we must relearn the ancient truth that patience, too, has its victories.
He that hath patience hath fat thrushes for a farthing.--_George Herbert._
Though we lose our fortune, yet we should not lose our patience.
Whoever is out of patience is out of possession of his soul.
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.
In prosperity caution, in adversity patience.
Your patience may have long to wait, Whether in little things or great, But all good luck, you soon will learn, Must come to those who nobly earn. Who hunts the hay-field over Will find the four-leaved clover.
Truth is to be costly to you--of labour and patience; and you are never to sell it, but to guard and to give.
~Amusement.~--Amusement is the waking sleep of labor. When it absorbs thought, patience, and strength that might have been seriously employed, it loses its distinctive character, and becomes the task-master of idleness.--_Willmott._
Quidquid erit, superanda omnis fortuna ferendo est=--Our fate, whatever it be, is to be overcome by patience under it.
Sir Henry Wotton was a most dear lover and a frequent practiser of the Art of Angling; of which he would say, "'T was an employment for his idle time, which was then not idly spent, a rest to his mind, a cheerer of his spirits, a diverter of sadness, a calmer of unquiet thoughts, a moderator of passions, a procurer of contentedness;" and "that it begat habits of peace and patience in those that professed and practised it."
Nothing does so much honour to a woman as her patience, and nothing does her so little as the patience of her husband.
It is perfectly clear that people, given no alternative, will choose tyranny over anarchy, because anarchy is the worst tyranny of all…. The special nature of liberties is that they can be defended only as long as we still have them. So the very first signs of their erosion must be resisted, whether the issue be domestic surveillance by the Army, so-called preventive detention, or the freedom of corporate television, or that of a campus newspaper…. It is an eternal error to believe that a cause considered righteous sanctifies unrighteous methods…. It is eternally true that both successful and unsuccessful revolutions increase the power of the state, not that of the individual…. We are learning that affluence without simplicity is a giant trap; that poverty itself is endurable, but not poverty side by side with affluence. Our political leaders are learning that Sophocles was right: nothing that is vast enters into the affairs of mortals without a curse, and that vast American power has now produced its curse…. What counts most in the long haul of adult life is not brilliance, or charisma, or derring-do, but rather the quality that the Romans called “gravitas” — patience, stamina, and weight of judgment…. The prime virtue is courage, because it makes all other virtues possible. [Highlights from the speech made by Eric Sevareid, CBS chief Washington correspondent, at the 80th Annual Stanford University Commencement, June 13, 1971.]