If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people. ~Thich Nhat Hanh

PATIENCE

1.    A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust. ~Gertrude Jekyll

2.    A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else. ~George Savile

3.    A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience. ~Stanley Baldwin

4.    A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation. ~Moliere

5.    Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

6.    Adopt the pace of nature:  her secret is patience.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

7.    Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity. ~Sammy Davis, Jr.

8.    All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it. ~Thomas Kempis

9.    Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury. ~Francis Quarles

10.  Beware the fury of a patient man.  ~John Dryden, Absolam and Achitophel, 1680

11.  Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now! ~Oren Arnold

12.  Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace. ~May Sarton

13.  Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience.  Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.  ~Michel de Montaigne

14.  Genius is eternal patience. ~Michelangelo

15.  Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.  ~George-Louis de Buffon

16.  Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience. ~Benjamin Franklin

17.  Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience. ~Hyman Rickover

18.  Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew. ~St. Francis de Sales

19.  Hope is patience with the lamp lit. ~Tertullian

20.  How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?  ~Paul Sweeney

21.  How poor are they that have not patience!

22.  Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. it's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere. ~Barack Obama

23.  No road is too long for him who advances slowly and does not hurry, and no attainment is beyond his reach who equips himself with patience to achieve it. ~Jean de La Bruyere

24.  One moment of patience may ward off great disaster.  One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life.  ~Chinese Proverb

25.  Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.  ~John Quincy Adams

26.  Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. ~John Quincy Adams

27.  Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.  ~Lord Chesterfield

28.  Patience is also a form of action.  ~Auguste Rodin

29.  Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.  ~Mac McCleary

30.  Patience is the ability to count down before you blast off.  ~Author Unknown

31.  Patience is the companion of wisdom.  ~St. Augustine

32.  Patience:  A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.  ~Ambrose Bierce

33.  The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg. Not by smashing it. ~Arnold H. Glasgow

34.  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. ~Linda Hogan

35.  What wound did ever heal but by degrees? ~ William Shakespeare, Othello, 1604

36.  You can learn many things from children.  How much patience you have, for instance.  ~Franklin P. Jones