Patience Quotes

Most popular patience quotes

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
— Chinese proverb

Chinese proverbs advisory anger proverbs

Let nothing perturb you, nothing frighten you. All things pass. God does not change. Patience achieves everything. - Mother Teresa quote.
Let nothing perturb you, nothing frighten you. All things pass. God does not change. Patience achieves everything.

equanimity

Be patient. No matter what. - John Perry Barlow quote.
Be patient. No matter what.
Patience is the companion of wisdom. - Augustine of Hippo quote.
Patience is the companion of wisdom.

wisdom

Patience is the art of hoping. - Marquis de Vauvenargues quote.
Patience is the art of hoping.

hope

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble. - Plautus quote.
Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.
Patience is passion tamed. - Lyman Abbott quote.
Patience is passion tamed.
Patience and diligence, like faith, remove mountains. - William Penn quote.
Patience and diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
The greatest prayer is patience. - Gautama Buddha quote.
The greatest prayer is patience.

prayer

It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient. - George Eliot quote.
It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.
To lose patience is to lose the battle. - Mahatma Gandhi quote.
To lose patience is to lose the battle.
Our patience will achieve more than our force. - Edmund Burke quote.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Beware the fury of a patient man. - John Dryden quote.
Beware the fury of a patient man.
Patience! The windmill never strays in search of the wind.
Evolution cannot be brought about by the use of dynamite.
It's waiting that helps you as an investor, and a lot of people just can't stand to wait. - Charlie Munger quote.
It's waiting that helps you as an investor, and a lot of people just can't stand to wait.

investing

Almost all good businesses engage in 'pain today, gain tomorrow' activities. - Charlie Munger quote.
Almost all good businesses engage in 'pain today, gain tomorrow' activities.

business management

The real secret of patience is to find something else to do in the meantime.
— Dell Pencil Puzzles and Word Games
He that can have patience can have what he will. - Benjamin Franklin quote.
He that can have patience can have what he will.
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it. - Arnold H. Glasow quote.
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.
Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time. - Abraham Lincoln quote.
Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.
In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau quote.
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself. - St. Francis de Sales quote.
Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself.
Patience is the ability to put up with people you'd like to put down.
There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue. - Edmund Burke quote.
There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.

action tolerance virtue

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

funny human nature

Regardless of how much patience we have, we would prefer never to use any of it.
A man without patience is a lamp without oil.
Impatience can be a virtue, if you practice it on yourself. - Rod McKuen quote.
Impatience can be a virtue, if you practice it on yourself.
He who is impatient waits twice.
One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time. - G. K. Chesterton quote.
One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.

time

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?

parenting

Patience often gets the credit that belongs to fatigue. - Franklin P. Jones quote.
Patience often gets the credit that belongs to fatigue.

cynical

No matter how great the talent or effort, some things just take time: You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant. - Warren Buffett quote.
No matter how great the talent or effort, some things just take time: You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.
Patience means self-suffering. - Mahatma Gandhi quote.
Patience means self-suffering.
Put up in a place
where it's easy to see
the cryptic admonishment
T. T. T.
When you feel how depressingly
slowly you climb,
it's well to remember that
Things Take Time.
Blessings may appear under the shape of pains, losses, and disappointments; but let him have patience, and he will see them in their proper figures. - Joseph Addison quote.
Blessings may appear under the shape of pains, losses, and disappointments; but let him have patience, and he will see them in their proper figures.

loss disappointment

You can't have genius without patience. - Margaret Deland quote.
You can't have genius without patience.

genius

Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience. - Comte de Buffon quote.
Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.

genius

Patience is a virtue, possess it if you can.
Seldom found in woman, never found in man.

men and women

Every misfortune is to be subdued by patience. - Virgil quote.
Every misfortune is to be subdued by patience.

misfortune

Patience is an integral part of talent.

talent

Ye have heard of the patience of Job.
— The Bible—James 5:11

biblical

Rejoice in your hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.
— The Bible—Romans 12–12

biblical

The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.
— The Bible—Galatians 5:22–23

biblical

Patience, n.  A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue. - Ambrose Bierce quote.
Patience, n.  A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.
I worked with patience which means almost power. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning quote.
I worked with patience which means almost power.
Patience is a high virtue. - Geoffrey Chaucer quote.
Patience is a high virtue.
Patience is sorrow's salve; what can't be cur'd,
...must be endur'd.
You have passed through the two hardest tests on the spiritual road: the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what you encounter. - Paulo Coelho quote.
You have passed through the two hardest tests on the spiritual road: the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what you encounter.
Paulo Coelho Veronika Decides to Die: A Novel of Redemption
Patience is not about waiting, but how we act when things take longer than we expect. - Paulo Coelho quote.
Patience is not about waiting, but how we act when things take longer than we expect.
As the years go on a sense of deep patience comes over one; one seems to know the virtue of ripeness, and the danger of rushing events. - Carolyn Heilbrun quote.
As the years go on a sense of deep patience comes over one; one seems to know the virtue of ripeness, and the danger of rushing events.
Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. - Leonardo da Vinci quote.
Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold.
To know how to wait is the great secret to success.
Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself.  I mean, do not be disturbed because of your imperfections, and always rise up bravely from a fall. - St. Francis de Sales quote.
Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself.  I mean, do not be disturbed because of your imperfections, and always rise up bravely from a fall.
Possess your soul with patience. - John Dryden quote.
Possess your soul with patience.
Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience.
Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity. - Thomas Hardy quote.
Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.
Patience makes lighter
What sorrow may not heal.
Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness. - Thomas Huxley quote.
Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

purpose of life

Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown. - Søren Kierkegaard quote.
Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.
Only with winter-patience can we bring
The deep-desired, long-awaited spring. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh quote.
Only with winter-patience can we bring
The deep-desired, long-awaited spring.
Patience lives in the gap between our experience of an event and our response to that experience.
Many are the sayings of the wise
In ancient and in modern books enrolled,
Extolling patience as the truest fortitude;And to the bearing well of all calamities,
All chances incident to man's frail life. - John Milton quote.
Many are the sayings of the wise
In ancient and in modern books enrolled,
Extolling patience as the truest fortitude;And to the bearing well of all calamities,
All chances incident to man's frail life.
There is a point when patience ceases to be a virtue.
Patience and the mulberry leaf become a silk gown.
— Chinese proverb

proverbs Chinese proverbs

Patience caught the nimble hare.
— Greek proverb

Greek proverbs proverbs

He that has patience may compass anything. - François Rabelais quote.
He that has patience may compass anything.
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet!
Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod. - William Shakespeare quote.
Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.
How poor are they that have not patience!  What wound did ever heal but by degrees? - William Shakespeare quote.
How poor are they that have not patience!  What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
Patience, when too often outraged, is converted to madness. - Publilius Syrus quote.
Patience, when too often outraged, is converted to madness.
Careful patience is the fastest way!