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“It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.”

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Book:A wreath of roses

Source: A wreath of roses

“To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the world with more love in small, private matters; to be more faithful in our work, to show greater patience, to forgo the cheap revenge obtainable from mockery and criticism: all these are things we can do.”

People World Matter Shows Can Do Greater Criticism Patience Institutions Revenge Tongue Faithful Hostility Mockery Shortage

Author:Hermann Hesse

“To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?”

Heart Ends Wisdom Lost Greater Greatness Ambition Difficulty Patience Fortune Endure Dare Hostile Intrigue Tire

Book:Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)

“Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience.”

Life Inspirational Motivational Greater Genius Patience Aptitude Founding Fathers Democracy

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.”

Inspirational Greater Design Genius Patience Aptitude

Author:Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

“Avoiding the temptation to sin and being patient upon that, is greater than being patient whilst being afflicted with trials.”

Religious Sin Greater Patience Patient Trials Temptation Islamic Avoiding Islamic Wisdom

Author:Ibn Taymiyyah

“No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.”

Source: The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments