Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

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

It's hard to remain patient when it seems so debilitating to do so. The balance comes with staying ambitious while being patient.

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

Patience is not passive resignation, nor is it failing to act because of our fears. Patience means active waiting and enduring. It means staying with something and doing all that we can - working, hoping, and exercising faith; bearing hardship with fortitude, even when the desires of our hearts are delayed. Patience is not simply enduring; it is enduring well!

One stroke fells not an oke.

Greatness comes with patience.

Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

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

Endurance is patience concentrated.

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

. . . Wait, my child, wait and work on. Patience, patience. . . . .

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

Even a snail will eventually reach its destination.

Be strong, be brave, be true. Endure.

Determination is the thing on which you can depend. It plods along without a swing, but gets there in the end.

It is hard! But what can not be removed, becomes lighter through patience.

Talent is long patience.

I will be patient till even patience tires of my patience.

By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.

Mastery of creative tension brings out the capacity for perseverance and patience. Time is an ally.

I've accrued a kind of patience, I believe, loosely like change.

The life of faith is not a life of mounting up with wings, but a life of walking and not fainting.