I've found a PATIENCE mine......

....and I've decided to share a few of the "gems" I've found as it appears that many of our posters need to take in these little "gems", to look at and cherish them and perhaps give their blood pressure a break.


Sit back and wait for an expected outcome without experiencing anxiety, tension, or frustration.



The patience of man, which is right and laudable and worthy of the name of virtue, is understood to be that by which we tolerate evil things with an even mind, that we may not with a mind uneven desert good things, through which we may arrive at better. Wherefore the impatient, while they will not suffer ills, effect not a deliverance from ills, but only the suffering of heavier ills. Whereas the patient who choose rather by not committing to bear, than by not bearing to commit, evil, both make lighter what through patience they suffer, and also escape worse ills in which through impatience they would be sunk.

St. Augustine of Hippo

Patience (Pa"tience) (?), n.
[F. patience, fr. L. patientia. See Patient.]

1. The state or quality of being patient; the power of suffering with fortitude; uncomplaining endurance of evils or wrongs, as toil, pain, poverty, insult, oppression, calamity, etc.


Chinese proverb

One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life.

John Quincy Adams

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.


I"m sure there are others that have patience mines and it would be nice if you shared some of your "gems"

Some more by known and unknown people. 8) 8)

"Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself."

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

"You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence."

"One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life."

"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."

"Acquaintance without patience is like a candle with no light."

"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience."

"Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits."

"Everything comes to him who waits."

"Patience can conquer destiny."

"Patience makes lighter what sorrow may not heal."

"Have patience and endure; this unhappiness will one day be beneficial."

"Patience is the companion of wisdom."

"Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength."

"Genius is eternal patience."

"People say they wish they had my patience. I tell them I wasn't born with it. I had to learn it. Everybody has patience. Some of us just make better use of it than others."

"There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story."

"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time."

"All things come to him who waits - provided he knows what he is waiting for."

"Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success."

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

"If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow."

"Patience and passage of time do more than strength and fury."

"He that can have patience can have what he will."

"With time and patience, the mulberry leaf becomes satin. With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown."

"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."

"We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world."

"Someone has defined genius as intensity of purpose: the ability to do, the patience to wait... Put these together and you have genius, and you have achievement."

"The secret of patience is doing something else in the meanwhile."

haka

Wow! Some real gems there, haka. Thank you.