Samuel Johnson Patience Quotations

In all evils which admit a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes that time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might remove the cause

In all evils which admits a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes the time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might remove the cause.

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

To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Patience and submission are very carefully to be distinguished from cowardice and indolence. We are not to repine, but we may lawfully struggle; for the calamities of life, like the necessities of Nature, are calls to labor and diligence.