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Endurance is the crowning quality,
And patience all the passion of great hearts.
James Russell Lowell
Quotes , Source: Columbus (l. 237)
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Or arm th' obdured breast
With stubborn patience as with triple steel.
John Milton
Quotes , Source: Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 568)
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Have patience and endure; this unhappiness will one day be
beneficial.
[Lat., Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim.]
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Quotes , Source: Amorum (III, 11, 7)
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Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.
W. H. Auden
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Consider the hour-glass; there is nothing to be accomplished by rattling or shaking; you have to wait patiently until the sand, grain by grain, has run from one funnel into the other.
John Christian Morgenstern
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There are times when God asks nothing of His children except silence, patience and tears.
C. S. Robinson
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If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives.
Marquise De Sévigné
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Jesus' Fig Tree
He did belittle you..
but soon he'll bebig you..
and in the spring
with blooms he will wig you..
in summer he'll summon
a jade garb
to resprig you..
and in the fall
on patient twigs
with fresh fruit
he'll refig you.
Saiom Shriver
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