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It is not just a person's physical constitution, their intellegence, their education, or even their social conditioning that enables them to withstand hardship. Much more significant is their inner development. And while some may be able to survive through sheer willpower, the ones who suffer the least are those who have a high degree of patience and courage in the face of adversity. -- Dalai Lama
Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perserverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life? -- Ann Voskamp
I think the Iraqi people have shown extraordinary patience and courage in the last few months. They have really put a political system on the way to success, to a real democracy here. -- Paul Bremer
Because we men have been physically stronger and more arrogant, we've influenced much of the cool stuff of the world, like basing the definition of courage on what we do on battlefields rather than on the patience or endurance or tolerance necessary for a sometimes painful daily grind that includes small children. -- Clyde Edgerton
We are telling the American people to have patience, courage, resolve and determination. -- Muammar al-Gaddafi
Amongst the qualities a hero should have, I would include determination, loyalty, courage, perseverance, patience, focus, intrepidity and selflessness. -- Ricky Martin
I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves. -- Major Taylor
A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience. -- Stanley Baldwin
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. -- Victor Hugo
And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass, and it seems like all is lost - Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward... with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace. -- Michelle Obama
Patience is the courage of virtue. -- Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
Fortify courage with the true rampart of patience. -- Philip Sidney
He who says patience, says courage, endurance, strength. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity. -- Thomas Hardy
Reason bears disgrace, courage combats it, patience surmounts it. -- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
Patience is not very different from courage. It just takes longer. -- James Richardson
Courage, energy and patience are the virtues which appeal to my heart. -- Fritz Kreisler
Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courage and patience. -- Hyman Rickover
Patience is the courage of the conqueror, the strength of man against destiny. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
What courage and patience are wanted for every life that aims to produce anything! -- George Eliot
Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work- this is the only way. -- Swami Vivekananda
Before every great reward, comes the footprints of persistency, consistency, perseverance, courage, faith and patience. -- Edmond Mbiaka
The road through grief is a rocky one. Traveling along it requires courage, patience, wisdom, and hope. -- Candy Lightner
The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage. -- Thucydides
I admire and respect the tenacity, courage, and patience of the unenlightened in the face of so much overwhelming evidence -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Kindness and courage can repair time's faults, And serving him breeds patience and courtesy In us, light sojourners and passing subjects. -- Edwin Muir
Courage for the big troubles in life, lad' he'd say, 'and patience for the small. Be of good cheer. God is awake. -- Louisa Young
The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility. -- Hermann Hesse
The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in adversity. -- Seneca the Younger
It takes a Mother's Patience, to bring a child up right, And her Courage and her Cheerfulness to make a dark day bright. -- Helen Steiner Rice
there are two spiritual tests: The patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be diappointed to what you have encounter. -- Paolo Coelho
Patience takes courage. It is not an ideal state of calm. In fact, when we practice patience we will see our agitation far more clearly. -- Pema Chodron
Traditionally the investor has been the man with patience and the courage of his convictions who would buy when the harried or disheartened speculator was selling. -- Benjamin Graham
Success is ninety-nine percent mental attitude. It calls for love, joy, optimism, confidence, serenity, poise, faith, courage, cheerfulness, imagination, initiative, tolerance, honesty, humility, patience, and enthusiasm. -- Wilferd Peterson
God know that a mother need fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul. -- Phyllis McGinley
The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter. -- Paulo Coelho
The challenge of statesmanship is to have the vision to dream of a better, safer world and the courage, persistence, and patience to turn that dream into reality. -- Ronald Reagan
I've also found that at the bottom of all of these qualities is love. If you have enough love you have enough courage, enough love then you have patience. -- Dorothy Maclean
Perfect health, sincerity, honesty, straightforwardness, courage, disinterestedness, unselfishness, patience, endurance, perseverance, peace, calm, self control are all things that are taught infinitely better by example than by beautiful speeches. -- Sri Aurobindo
The king-becoming graces, As justice, verity, temp'rance, stableness, Bounty, perseverance, mercy, lowliness, Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude, I have no relish of them, but abound In the division of each several crime, Acting in many ways. -- William Shakespeare

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