Our patience will achieve more than our force.
— Edmund Burke
Perseverance
Thinking with me is like looking for a person whose address I don't know. I stand on a street corner all day long waiting for him to pass by. Certainly there are more efficient ways of locating a person whose address you don't know. But if you have a whole lifetime to wait and enjoy watching things go by, then waiting on street corners is as good a method as any. If you don't find the person you are looking for, you might meet someone else.
Have patience with every one, but especially with yourself.
— Francis de Sales
Patience
All human errors are impatience, the premature breaking off of what is methodical, an apparent fencing in of the apparent thing.
Such patience have the heroes who begin, Of the world's harvest, make one poor small lyre.
— George Eliot
Perseverance
Every man is working out his destiny in his own way and nobody can be of any help except by being kind, generous, and patient.
Possess your soul with patience.
Time, that aged nurse,Rocked me to patience.
[Nelson, re watching TV] He watches until he feels his intelligence being too rudely insulted or his patience being too arrogantly tested by the commercials...