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.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry.

Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry.

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.

It is hard! But what can not be removed, becomes lighter through
patience.
[Lat., Durum! sed levius fir read more

It is hard! But what can not be removed, becomes lighter through
patience.
[Lat., Durum! sed levius fir patientia
Quicquid corrigere est nefas.]

But there are times when patience proves at fault.

But there are times when patience proves at fault.

There is however a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a
virtue.

There is however a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a
virtue.

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

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

Every one ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.
[Lat., Sua quisque exempla debet aequo animo read more

Every one ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.
[Lat., Sua quisque exempla debet aequo animo pati.]