#patience

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience. ↗

— Evelyn Underhill

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I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#against #am #be patient #best #develop

Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears. ↗

— Barbara Johnson

#feel #gears #idle #like #motor

I could have married again while I was still young. A congregation likes to have a married minister, and I was introduced to every niece and sister-in-law in a hundred miles. In retrospect, I'm very grateful for whatever reluctance it was that kept me alone until your mother came. Now that I look back, it seems to me that in all that deep darkness a miracle was preparing. So I am right to remember it as a blessed time, and myself as waiting in confidence, even if I had no idea what I was waiting for. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#love #marriage #patience #love

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. ↗

— Franklin P. Jones

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Patience is the art of concealing your impatience. ↗

— Guy Kawasaki

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Everyone is given one gift, a reason for being, and it's our obligation to do something with it. Obviously, it's a challenge - but if you're not taking the bull by the horns, I have no patience for you. You're just taking up space. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#bull #challenge #everyone #gift #given

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world. ↗

— Helen Keller

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Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#cannot #immediately #necessary #reap #sown

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#grant #heaven #love #man #us