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Patience is also a form of action.
Auguste Rodin1840–1917 · sculptor · 1800s-1900s FranceAuguste Rodin was a French sculptor widely considered the father of modern sculpture, famous for works like The Thinker and The Kiss — both originally conceived as figures within a single monumental, unfinished doorway called The Gates of Hell.5 quotes
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Waiting well is not doing nothing. Patience is one of the ways you get things done.

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50% sureLots of sources credit Auguste Rodin with this, and they agree with each other. The book or the speech it first came from hasn't turned up yet.
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Attributed; earliest located citation is Leonard William Doob, Hesitation: Impulsivity and Reflection (1990), p. 124 — a posthumous compilation, so held at likely.
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collected in Hesitation: Impulsivity and Reflection (Leonard William Doob, 1990), p. 124
Occasion
remembered as Rodin's word on the slow, deliberate side of a sculptor's work
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  • en.wikiquote.orgChecked using claude-fable-5, 22 August 2026Wikiquote Attributed section — only citation is Doob 1990, posthumous compilation (Rodin d. 1917). Negative check this pass: NOT in Mauclair 1905, Art 1912, or Cladel 1917 (all fetched in full, grepped). Promotion path: a lifetime French source (Gsell/Coquiot).

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I obey nature, I never presume to command her.Auguste RodinI invent nothing, I rediscover.Auguste RodinThe artist must have the patience of water that eats away the rock drop by drop.Auguste RodinNature is always beautiful. We need only to understand what she shows us.Auguste Rodin

More on perseverance

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.ConfuciusNature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.Lao TzuSlow and steady wins the race.AesopPatience is the key to relief.Arabic proverbDrops of water hollow out a stone.OvidFew things are impossible to diligence and skill.Samuel Johnson

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