Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship.

If we are deprived of hope as well as fear, we are compensated by being given an almost endless patience for enduring or simply for waiting.

To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life

What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places?

With patience and calm, persistence and stoicism, good handwriting and careful labeling, they would meet persecution, indignity, and hardship head-on.

Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this.

I do not murmur, even if my heart break.

Either a wise man will not go into bunkers, or, being in, he will endure such things as befall him with patience.

Set not thyself to attain much rest, but much patience.

When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to make up our minds to it, meet it with firmness, and accommodate everything to it in the best way practicable. This lessens the evil; while fretting and fuming only serves to increase your own torments.

Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage.

Endure what is difficult to endure and to suffer what is difficult to suffer.

Dispose thyself to patience rather than to comfort, and to the bearing of the cross rather than to gladness.

Patience is the remedy for every misfortune.

Let us bear with magnanimity whatever it is needful for us to bear.

But with the increase of serious and just ground of complaint, a new kind of patience had sprung up in her Mother's mind. She was gentle and quiet in intense bodily suffering, almost in proportion as she had been restless and depressed when there had been no real cause for grief.

Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.

And though hard be the task, 'Keep a stiff upper lip'.

The only thing I pray for is the strength to go out without complaining.

Patience is not simply enduring; it is enduring well!

Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.

Patience is not just about waiting for something... it's about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.

Go forward while you can, but if your strength fails you, sit down near the road and gaze without anger or envy at those who pass by. They don't have far to go, either.

For God's love, take things patiently, have sense, Think! We are prisoners and shall always be. Fortune has given us this adversity, Some wicked planetary dispensation, Some Saturn's trick or evil constellation Has given us this, and Heaven, though we had sworn The contrary, so stood when we were born. We must endure it, that's the long and short.

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