Annie Besant Quotes

If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.

The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience.

Strength comes from waiting.

Patience et longueur de temps Font plus que force ni que rage. Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.

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

A fundamental mistake to call vehemence and rigidity strength! A man is not strong who takes convulsion-fits; though six men cannot hold him then. He that can walk under the heaviest weight without staggering, he is the strong man . . . A man who cannot hold his peace, till the time come for speaking and acting, is no right man.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder.

Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.

Patience is the strongest of strong drinks; for it kills the giant despair.

Be like the rocky headland on which the waves constantly break. It stands firm, and round it the seething waters are laid to rest.

If we are deprived of hope as well as fear, we are compensated by being given an almost endless patience for enduring or simply for waiting.

Patience and perseverance at lengthAccomplish more than anger or brute strength.

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

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.

Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.

Purity, patience and perseverance overcome all obstacles. All great things must of necessity be slow.

He who says patience, says courage, endurance, strength.

Possess your soul with patience.

Patience has the meaning of testing-a thing drawn out and tested, drawn out to the last strand in a strain without breaking, and ending in sheer joy. The strain on a violin string when stretched to the uttermost gives it its strength; and the stronger the strain, the finer is the sound of our life for God, and He never strains more than we are able to bear.