Patience: A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.

Patience: A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.

Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.

Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.

Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow read more

Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that is patience.

Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.

Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.

Patience and shuffle the cards.
[Sp., Paciencia y barajar.]

Patience and shuffle the cards.
[Sp., Paciencia y barajar.]

By time and toil we sever
What strength and rage could never.
[Fr., Patience et longueur de read more

By time and toil we sever
What strength and rage could never.
[Fr., Patience et longueur de temps.
Font plus que force ni que rage.]

Thus with hir fader for a certeyn space
Dwelleth this flour of wyfly pacience,
That neither by read more

Thus with hir fader for a certeyn space
Dwelleth this flour of wyfly pacience,
That neither by hir wordes ne his face
Biforn the fold, ne eek in her absence,
Ne shewed she that hir was doon offence.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.