CURATED COLLECTION

Practicing Patience

Patience is not passive waiting — it is the active choice to trust that time is doing something.

43 quotes found

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Patience is the key to all treasures, for rushing only breaks the lock.

—FuzuliPoet

Renaissance ERA • MENA

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Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

—OvidPoet

Ancient World ERA • Southern Europe

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Patience is the key to joy.

—JamiPoet & Scholar

Renaissance ERA • Central Asia

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Patience obtains all things.

—Teresa of ÁvilaMystic & Reformer

Renaissance ERA • Southern Europe

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Patience is the crown of all virtues.

—Bayram KhanPoet

Renaissance ERA • Central Asia

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Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

—ConfuciusPhilosopher

Ancient World ERA • East Asia

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Courage is not the absence of fear. It is the decision that something else is more important.

—Maaza MengisteNovelist, Essayist & King

Digital Age ERA • East Africa

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Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.

—Al-GhazaliPhilosopher, Theologian & Mystic

Medieval ERA • Central Asia

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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

—Samuel BeckettNovelist & Playwright

Late Modern ERA • Western Europe

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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

—Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWriter, Scientist & Statesman

Enlightenment ERA • Western Europe

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It is not that I'm so brave, it is just that I'm too stubborn to quit.

—SenecaPhilosopher, Statesman & Playwright

Ancient World ERA • Southern Europe

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You have a right to perform your actions, but not to the fruits of your actions.

—Bhagavad GitaAuthor & Thinker

Ancient World ERA • South Asia

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

—Anton ChekhovWriter & Playwright

Industrial Age ERA • Eastern Europe

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Courage is not the absence of fear. It is acting in spite of it.

—Ousmane SembèneNovelist

Post-War ERA • West Africa

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A man's duty is to be useful — to himself, to those around him.

—Pramoedya Ananta ToerNovelist & Writer

Post-War ERA • Southeast Asia

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Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.

—Marie CuriePhysicist & Chemist

Early Modern ERA • Western Europe

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There is a glory that comes only to those who wait without losing hope.

—Mustafa Safi al-Din al-Tughra'iPoet

Medieval ERA • MENA

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I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I never ran my train off the track.

—Harriet TubmanAbolitionist & Activist

Industrial Age ERA • North America

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I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear.

—Rosa ParksActivist

Post-War ERA • North America

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Progress is simply a function of how much energy you apply to a problem.

—Elon MuskEntrepreneur & Engineer

Digital Age ERA • North America

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