William Shenstone Quotes

Possess your soul with patience.

Patience is moral elasticity.

To lose patience is to lose the battle.

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

Patience is a grace as difficult as it is necessary, and as hard to come by as it is precious when it is gained.

For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill.

Time can but make it easier to be wise / Though now it seems impossible, and so / All that you need is patience.

Patience is the remedy for every misfortune.

It is in length of patience, endurance and forbearance that so much of what is good in mankind and womankind is shown.

Have patience, heart.

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

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship.

All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.

Be patient. Patience is the mother of all virtues.

The biggest thing I possess is infinite patience. Once you are patient, things fall in place.

Patience, increasing patience

Patience is not simply enduring; it is enduring well!

Your passion must be tempered with patience. Maybe long-suffering patience would be a better word.

Have patience, and endure

A man without patience is a lamp without oil.

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

The disciple must have great power of endurance. Bear all evil and misery without one thought of unhappiness, resistance, remedy, or retaliation. That is true endurance, and that you must acquire.