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Quotes about Patience — 17 Timeless Lines

17 quotes about patience, arranged the way they appear in Quote 2048: from the lightest line on the 2 tile to the crown quote on the 2048 tile, and on to 131072 in the app.

All quotes come from public-domain works or traditional proverbs; attributions were checked against their sources.

1. 2

   Three times "patience" avoids even murder

   — Proverb

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2. 4

   Food eaten in haste chokes you

   — Proverb

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3. 8

   Patience is bitter, its fruit sweet

   — Traditional

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4. 16

   The patient gain only more patience

   — Proverb

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5. 32

   Slow but steady wins the race

   — Aesop

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6. 64

   He that can have patience can have what he will

   — Benjamin Franklin

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7. 128

   Good days come to those who endure

   — Traditional

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8. 256

   Impatience in small things ruins great plans

   — Confucius

   Original · Classical Chinese小不忍則亂大謀

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9. 512

   Patience is the art of hoping

   — Vauvenargues

   Original · FrenchLa patience est l'art d'espérer.

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10. 1024

    What can't be mended, patience eases

    — Horace

    Original · LatinLevius fit patientia quidquid corrigere est nefas

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11. 2048👑 Crown quote

    Dripping water hollows the stone

    — Ovid

    Original · LatinGutta cavat lapidem

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12. Levels 4096–131072 continue in the app.
13. 4096

    Patience and time do more than strength or passion

    — La Fontaine

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14. 8192

    Nothing happens that you cannot bear

    — Marcus Aurelius

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15. 16384

    The peach tree does not speak, yet a path forms beneath it

    — Sima Qian

    Original · Classical Chinese桃李不言，下自成蹊

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16. 32768

    All noble things are rare and hard

    — Spinoza

    Original · LatinOmnia praeclara tam difficilia quam rara sunt

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17. 65536

    Endure, my heart; you have borne worse

    — Homer

    Original · Ancient Greekτέτλαθι δή, κραδίη

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18. 131072

    Who can wait quietly while the muddy water settles clear?

    — Laozi

    Original · Classical Chinese孰能濁以靜之徐清

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