Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labour and to wait.

Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labour and to wait.

Thus with hir fader for a certeyn space
Dwelleth this flour of wyfly pacience,
That neither by read more

Thus with hir fader for a certeyn space
Dwelleth this flour of wyfly pacience,
That neither by hir wordes ne his face
Biforn the fold, ne eek in her absence,
Ne shewed she that hir was doon offence.

Patience and fortitude conquer all things

Patience and fortitude conquer all things

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.

Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.

Have patience with all things, but first of all with yourself.

Have patience with all things, but first of all with yourself.

Patience is a minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.

Patience is a minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.

Consider the hour-glass; there is nothing to be accomplished by rattling or shaking; you have to wait patiently until the read more

Consider the hour-glass; there is nothing to be accomplished by rattling or shaking; you have to wait patiently until the sand, grain by grain, has run from one funnel into the other.

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.