You May Also Like / View all maxioms
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labour and to wait.
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labour and to wait.
Patience: A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.
Patience: A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.
He that can have patience can have what he will.
He that can have patience can have what he will.
Endurance is the crowning quality,
And patience all the passion of great hearts.
Endurance is the crowning quality,
And patience all the passion of great hearts.
Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this.
Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this.
Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill.
For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill.
Abused patience turns to fury.
Abused patience turns to fury.
How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
