Patience

“    'Your beauty was the first that won the place,      And scal'd the walls of my undaunted heart,      Which, captive now, pines in a caitive case,      Unkindly met with rigour for desert;—      Yet not the less your servant shall abide,      In spite of rude repulse or silent pride.'              WILLIAM FOWLER.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

“Oh, Mr. Thornton, I am not good enough!'

'Not good enough! Don't mock my own deep feeling of unworthiness.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

“With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.”
― Margaret Mitchell

“Thus human beings judge of one another, superficially, casually, throwing contempt on one another, with but little reason, and no charity.”
― Baroness Emmuska Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel