Patience Quotes and Sayings
Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.
All human wisdom is summed up in two words – wait and hope.
Alexandre Dumas Père
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and
obstacles vanish.
John Quincy Adams
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
Thomas A. Edison
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Edmund Burke
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people’s patience.
John Updike
You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence.
Robert Frost
Beware the fury of a patient man.
John Dryden
Patience and fortitude conquer all things.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Have patience with all things, but first of all with yourself.
St. Francis de Sales
Patience is power; with time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
Chinese Proverb
One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life.
Chinese Proverb
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
Phaedrus
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
A final word: I am not knowledgeable about the internet. I do not have a computer. I guess that at 74 years of age, I don’t have the patience to learn.
David Wilkerson
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?
Paul Sweeney
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
Franklin P. Jones
Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.
Mac McCleary
Patience is the ability to count down before you blast off.
Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.
George-Louis de Buffon
He that can have Patience, can have what he will.
Benjamin Franklin
Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.
Lord Chesterfield
Patience: A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.
Ambrose Bierce
The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.
Ralph Marston
A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
George Savile
Acquaintance without patience is like a candle with no light.
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it’s cowardice.
George Jackson
Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.
Ovid
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
Chinese Proverb
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
Moliere
Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow – that is patience.
Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All thing pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for. He who has God Finds he lacks nothing:God alone suffices.
St. Teresa of Avila
A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.
Gertrude Jekyll
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
Moliere
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Saint Augustine
Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.
Evelyn Underhill
Anyhow, a philosophical turn of thought now was not amiss, else one’s patience would have given out almost at the harbour entrance. The term of her probation was eight days.
Joshua Slocum
Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things – with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.
Corazon Aquino
A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it’s tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows?
Aaron Spelling
A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months’ experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time – patience.
Stanley Baldwin
Abused patience turns to fury.
Thomas Fuller
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.
David Mallet
And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources, had trained me with skill and patience, and had shown me nothing but forbearance and charity when I failed in trust.
Simon Raven
Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.
Sammy Davis
As for goals, I don’t set myself those anymore. I’m not one of these ‘I must have achieved this and that by next year’ kind of writers. I take things as they come and find that patience and persistence tend to win out in the end.
Paul Kane
All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.
Thomas Kempis
As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.
Cleveland Amory
As I pass it, I feel as if I saw a dear old mother, sweet in her weakness, trembling at the approach of her dissolution, but not appealing to me against the inevitable, rather endeavouring to reassure me by her patience, and pointing to a hopeful future.
Thomas Edward Brown
All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.
Thomas Fuller