“ I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end. ”
- Margaret Thatcher- Copy
- 3.8K
“ No man can be patient who has not strong passions, for patience is passion tamed. ”
- Lyman Abbott- Copy
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“ Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind. ”
- Langston Hughes- Copy
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“ There is in some people a quietly unassuming pride that no misfortune can humble, and it goes by the name of humility. ”
- Robert Brault- Copy
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“ Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them. ”
- Washington Irving- Copy
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“ I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end. ”
- Margaret Thatcher- Copy
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“ To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly, it is to be humane. ”
- Jane Harrison- Copy
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“ Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and you shall find rest for your souls. ”
- The Holy Bible- Copy
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“ God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart. ”
- Izaak Walton- Copy
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“ Blessed be the meek, for they shall inherit six feet of the earth. ”
- The Clown Prince of Darkness- Copy
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“ The meekest of animals will fight bravely when it is backed against a wall, for it has nothing left to lose. A poor man is more deadly than a rich man because he puts less value on his own life. ”
- Robert Anthony Salvatore- Copy
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“ God has two dwellings: one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart. ”
- Izaak Walton- Copy
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“ If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known. ”
- William Edward Burghardt Du Bois- Copy
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“ It's going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth after they inherit it. ”
- Kin Hubbard- Copy
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“ Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; I am your friend, but never your possession. ”
- Vera Brittain- Copy
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“ Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie, but rather mourn the apathetic throng, the coward and the meek who see the world's great anguish and its wrong, and dare not speak. ”
- Ralph Chaplin- Copy
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“ My beautiful, my beautiful! That standest meekly by, with thy proudly-arched and glossy neck, and dark and fiery eye! ”
- Caroline Sheridan Norton- Copy
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“ Art and I played more when we were in San Quentin together than when we were on the outside. We had a great band there with Frank Butler, Dupree Bolton, Nathaniel Meeks and some guys who learned how to play while they were in prison. ”
- Frank Morgan- Copy
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“ There will be no peace in the tormented world, only a programmed and systematic series of wars and calamities-until the plotters have gained their objective: an exhausted world willing to submit to a PLANNED Marxist economy and total and meek ENSLAVEMENT-in the name of PEACE. ”
- Taylor Caldwell- Copy
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“ To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience. Nonviolent actions does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences… ”
- Barbara Deming- Copy
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“ When I pastored a country church, a farmer didn't like the sermons I preached on hell. He said, "Preach about the meek and lowly Jesus." I said, "That's where I got my information about hell.". ”
- Vance Havner- Copy
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“ IMMODEST, adj. Having a strong sense of one's own merit, coupled with a feeble conception of worth in others. There was once a man in Ispahan Ever and ever so long ago, And he had a head, the phrenologists said, That fitted him for a show. For his modesty's bump was so large a lump That its summit stood far above the wood Of his hair, like a mountain peak… ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ Let me be a little kinder, Let me be a little blinder To the faults about me; Let me praise a little more, Let me be, when I am weary; Just a little bit more cheery, Let me serve a little better Those that I am striving for. Let me be a little braver When temptation bids me waver, Let me strive a little harder To be all that I should be; Let me be a little meeker to the brother that is weaker; Let me think more of my neighbor and a little less of me. ”
- Unknown- Copy
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