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“Wait with patience and love and strength. If helpers are not ready now, they will come in time. Why should we be in a hurry? The real working force of all great work is in its almost unperceived beginnings.”

Ifs Should Real Force Waiting Ready And Love Patience Perseverance Great Work Not Ready Helpers Patience And Love Strength And Love

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“Architecture is a discipline that takes time and patience. If one spends enough years writing complex novels one might be able, someday, to construct a respectable haiku.”

“Everything is out there if you know how to find it, and have the patience. I don't and haven't, but that's my problem”

Ifs Knows Problem Know How Havens Patience

Author:Tom Holt

“Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.”

Ifs Children Doe Remember Water Half Patience Obstacles My Children Remember You Remembers You Patience And Waiting Dripping Water

Book:The Penelopiad

Source: The Penelopiad

“Everyone is given one gift, a reason for being, and it's our obligation to do something with it. Obviously, it's a challenge - but if you're not taking the bull by the horns, I have no patience for you. You're just taking up space.”

Ifs Reason Given Challenges Space Patience Obligation Bulls Horns No Patience I Have No Patience

Author:Melissa Rosenberg

“True enough, nature has endowed me with a fair measure of patience and composure, yet I should be lying if I told you that, having seen the reporter off on his way to make his deadline, I fell peacefully asleep.”

Ifs Way Should Enough Lying Fairs Patience Reporters Deadline Composure

Author:Leon Jouhaux

“Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been obliged to listen to and patiently to bear.”

Ifs Should Has Beens Failing Bears Speech Patience Relate Servant Treatment Obliged Disrespectful

Author:Peter Stuyvesant

“As I pass it, I feel as if I saw a dear old mother, sweet in her weakness, trembling at the approach of her dissolution, but not appealing to me against the inevitable, rather endeavouring to reassure me by her patience, and pointing to a hopeful future.”

Ifs Feels Mother Saws Sweet Approach Weakness Patience Dear Inevitable Hopeful Pointing Trembling Dissolution Hopeful Future

Author:T. E. Brown

“If, through the years, the Cross in the life of the believer had been adhered to as strenuously as the Cross for salvation, the Church would not today be so plagued with modernistic infidelity.”

Ifs Years Today Action Church Crosses Patience Salvation Believer Infidelity Through The Years

Author:L. E. Maxwell

“If indeed the qualities such as love, patience, tolerance, and forgiveness are what happiness consists in, and if it is also true that compassion, defined as concern for others, is both the source and the fruit of these qualities, then the more we are compassionate, the more we provide for our own happiness.”

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Author:Dalai Lama

“Anger cannot be overcome by anger. If someone is angry with you, and you show anger in return, the result is a disaster. On the other hand, if you control your anger and show its opposite - love, compassion, tolerance and patience - not only will you remain peaceful, but the other person's anger will also diminish.”

Ifs Persons Shows Hands Results Compassion Return Opposites Overcoming Patience Angry Tolerance Disaster Peaceful Peace Of Mind Diminish Anger Management Peacekeeping

Author:Dalai Lama

“If you have friends or family who are not practicing, give them your company and not your judgment. They need your patience and your love. Allah is sufficient for judgment and He subhanahu wa ta'ala is a perfect Judge. We are not.”

Ifs Needs Giving Perfect Company Judging Judgment Patience Sufficient Muslim Patience And Love Love Allah

Author:Nouman Ali Khan

“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

“If, like the prophet Noah, you have patience in the distress of the flood, Calamity turns aside, and the desire of a thousand years comes forth.”

Ifs Years Desire Turns Thousand Patience Prophet Flood Distress Thousand Years Calamity Having Patience

Author:Hafez