Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

At the least bear patiently, if thou canst not joyfully.

Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.

Possess your soul with patience.

When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to make up our minds to it, meet it with firmness, and accommodate everything to it in the best way practicable. This lessens the evil; while fretting and fuming only serves to increase your own torments.

Face it," Gary told her kindly. "You'll never catch up. You just do as much as you can and take the punishments without saying anything. Sometimes I wonder if that isn't what they're really trying to teach us--to take plenty and keep our mouths shut.

You must endure, and not cry out against that which cannot be avoided.

Affliction is a pill, which, being wrapt up in patience and quiet submission, may be easily swallowed; but discontent chews the pill, and so embitters the soul.

Be patient. Like storms, the challenges will pass. Know too, that like the sun, your true soul self is constantly radiating.

Let us bear with magnanimity whatever it is needful for us to bear.

Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.

The only thing I pray for is the strength to go out without complaining.

I do not murmur, even if my heart break.

Patience is not simply enduring; it is enduring well!

Bear patiently, my heart, for you have suffered heavier things.

Either a wise man will not go into bunkers, or, being in, he will endure such things as befall him with patience.

Patience is the panacea; but where does it grow, or who can swallow it?

Set not thyself to attain much rest, but much patience.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more on it. A strength which becomes clearer and stronger through experiences of such obstacles is the only strength that can conquer them. Resistance is only a waste of strength.

What can't be helped must be endured.

GRACE: All you can do is take it.

The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.

You mistake patience for forbearance.

In any situation you can think of, impatience is a source of weakness and fear, while patience represents substance and strength.

No matter how bad a state of mind you may get into, if you keep strong and hold out, eventually the floating clouds must vanish and the withering wind must cease.