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“A stumble may prevent a fall.”
― Thomas Fuller

“Other people can’t cause us to be impatient unless we let them do so. In other words, others don’t make us impatient. We make ourselves impatient, through our expectations and demands, fixated attachments and stuckness.”
― Lama Surya Das

“What good has impatience ever brought? It has only served as the mother of mistakes and the father of irritation.”
― Steve Maraboli

“Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all.”
― Friedrich von Logau

“For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching has become a regular habit, until he is able to admit and accept what he finds, and until he patiently and persistently tries to correct what is wrong. – Bill W.”
― Bill W.

“The enemy is the necessary condition for practicing patience.”
― His Holiness The Dalai Lama

“Perfect love is perfectly patient.”
― Neal A. Maxwell, All These Things Shall Give Thee Experience

“The work that God does in us when we wait is usually more important than the thing for which we wait!”
― Erwin W. Lutzer, When You've Been Wronged: Moving From Bitterness to Forgiveness

“The word 'jihad' has nowhere been used in the Qur'an to mean war in the sense of launching an offensive. It is used rather to mean 'struggle'. the action most consistently called for in the Qur'an is the exercise of patience. (p. 7-8)”
― Wahiduddin Khan, The True Jihad: The Concept of Peace, Tolerance and Non Violence in Islam

“Not all Muslims become involved in acts of violence. Yet all might be held culpable. THis is because that section of Muslim--in fact, the majority--who are not personally involved, neither disown those members of their community who are engaged in violence, nor even condemn them. In such a case, according to the Islamic Shariah itself, if the involved Muslims are directly responsible, the uninvolved Muslims are also indirectly responsible. (p. 91)”
― Wahiduddin Khan, The True Jihad: The Concept of Peace, Tolerance and Non Violence in Islam

“Every age, and especially our own, stands in need of a Diogenes; but the difficulty is in finding men who have the courage to be one, and men who have the patience to endure one.”
― Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Miscellaneous pieces in literature, history, and philosophy. By Mr. d'Alembert ... Translated from the French

“Impatience is a particularly dangerous habit of the heart because everything worthwhile takes time. Good marriages take time. Spiritual maturity takes time. Financial stability takes time. Effective ministry takes time. Wisdom takes time. People who are not willing to take time cannot have any of the above.”
― Jim Berg, Created for His Glory

“Patience is supported & nurtured by a quality of forgiveness.”
― Allan Lokos, Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living

“Never was the victory of patience more complete than in the early church. The anvil broke the hammer by bearing all the blows that the hammer could place upon it. The patience of the saints was stronger than the cruelty of tyrants.”
― Charles H. Spurgeon

“Best to introduce yourself to patience now, so that it might find you when you call upon it later.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Furthermore

“When people used to complain to the Buddha that they were upset, telling him, "Our children upset us; our partner agitates us," his simple reply would be, "You are not upset because of your children or your partner; you are upset because you are upsettable.”
― Eknath Easwaran, The Mantram Handbook