Quotes about patience

Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

— Source Unknown

Patience is passion tamed.

— Lyman Abbott

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

— Joseph Addison

With close-lipped Patience for our only friend, Sad Patience, too near neighbor to Despair.

— Matthew Arnold

Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.

— W. H. Auden

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

— Francis Bacon

Little by little, through patience and repeated effort, the mind will become stilled in the Self.

— Bhagavad Gita

Patience. A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.

— Ambrose Bierce

Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

— Paul Boese

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

— Jerry Brown

There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.

— Jean De La Bruyere

Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; Hold fast; Hold out. Patience is genius.

— Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon

Patience is not active; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

— Edmund Burke

Patience will achieve more than force.

— Edmund Burke

It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.

— Horace Bushnell

If I'm not back in five minutes... just wait longer!

— Jim Carrey

Patience and shuffle the cards.

— Miguel De Cervantes

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

— Charlie Chaplin

Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.

— Lord Chesterfield

It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.

— William Cobbett

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength

— Charles Caleb Colton

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will be powerless to vex your mind.

— Leonardo Da Vinci

Beware the fury of a patient man.

— John Dryden

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

— Thomas A. Edison

I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.

— Albert Einstein

Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

— Epictetus

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

— Epictetus

A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.

— William Faulkner

Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

— B. C. Forbes

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them -- every day begin the task anew -

— St. Francis De Sales

He that can have patience can have what he will.

— Benjamin Franklin

Patience means self-suffering.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.

— Arnold H. Glasgow

The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Patience is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not.

— George Granville

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

— Thomas Hardy

If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big.

— Hesiod

Work and wait, work and wait is what God says to us in creation.

— Josiah Gilbert Holland

Let this be understood, then, at starting; that the patient conquest of difficulties which rise in the regular and legitimate channels of business and enterprise is not only essential in securing the success which you seek but it is essential to that preparation of your mind, requisite for the enjoyment of your successes, and for retaining them when gained. So, day by day, and week by week; so month after month, and year after year, work on, and in that process gain strength and symmetry, and nerve and knowledge, that when success, patiently and bravely worked for, shall come, it may find you prepared to receive it and keep it,

— James Hogg

Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice.

— George Holbrook Jackson

Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

— Barbara Johnson

In all evils which admits a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes the time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might remove the cause.

— Samuel Johnson

Those who desire to become rich, desire it at once.

— (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal

All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.

— Franz Kafka

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

— Rudyard Kipling

Patience and the passage of time do more than strength and fury.

— Jean De La Fontaine

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach-waiting for a gift from the sea.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Every man must patiently bide his time. He must wait -- not in listless idleness but in constant, steady, cheerful endeavors, always willing and fulfilling and accomplishing his task, that when the occasion comes he may be equal to the occasion.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

All things come round to him who will but wait.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

— Sri Anandamayi Ma

To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success.

— Joseph De Maistre

Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.

— Philip Massinger

Patience permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord when we are tossed about by suffering as if by surf. When the undertow grasps us we will realize that we are somehow being carried forward even as we tumble. We are actually being -helped even as we cry for help.

— Neal A. Maxwell

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in one ahead.

— Bill Mcglashen

They also serve who only stand and wait.

— John Milton

Patience is the key to contentment.

— Mohammed

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

— Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

Consider the hour-glass; there is nothing to be accomplished by rattling or shaking; you have to wait patiently until the sand, grain by grain, has run from one funnel into the other.

— John Christian Morgenstern

You will conquer by patience.

— Motto

If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.

— Sir Isaac Newton

Patience makes a woman beautiful in middle age.

— Elliot Paul

Patience in the present, faith in the future, and joy in the doing

— George Perera

Let me look upward into the branches of the flowering oak and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well.

— Wilferd A. Peterson

A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

— Plaut

In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.

— W. B. Prescott

Rome was not built in a day.

— Proverb

Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

— Proverb

Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

— Proverb

Patience is power; with time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.

— Chinese Proverb

An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains.

— Dutch Proverb

Dios tarda pero no olvida -- God delays but doesn't forget.

— Spanish Proverb

Patience is the key to paradise.

— Turkish Proverb

Be patient. The path of self-discipline that leads to God-realization is not an easy path: obstacles and sufferings are on the path; the latter you must bear, and the former overcome -- all by His help. His help comes only through concentration. Repetition of God's name helps concentration.

— Swami Ramdas

There are times when God asks nothing of his children except silence, patience and tears.

— C. S. Robinson

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

— Jean Jacques Rousseau

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

— Joseph Roux

Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.

— Saadi

The patience of the hunter is always greater than that of the prey.

— Traditional Saying

Sometimes it helps to know that I just can't do it all. One step at a time is all that's possible -- even when those steps are taken on the run.

— Anne W. Schaef

Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives.

— Marquise De SeVigne

Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

— William Shakespeare

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

— William Shakespeare

That which in mean men we entitle patience is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.

— William Shakespeare

How poor are they that have not patience. What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

— William Shakespeare

My son, observe the postage stamp! Its usefulness depends upon its ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.

— Henry Wheeler Shaw

I am patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it.

— Dame Edith Sitwell

Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

— Publilius Syrus

I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.

— Margaret Thatcher

Patience carries a lot of wait

— Source Unknown

Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow -- that is patience.

— Source Unknown

A patient man is one who can put up with himself.

— Source Unknown

If you are tempted to lose patience with your fellowman; stop and think how patient God has been with you.

— Source Unknown

Patience is counting down without blasting off

— Source Unknown

Like farmers we need to learn that we cannot sow and reap the same day.

— Source Unknown

Of all the things that tax a man's patience, there's nothing to compare with a stuck zipper.

— Source Unknown

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; she requires the hand of time.

— Voltaire

All things come to him who waits -- provided he knows what he is waiting for.

— Woodrow T. Wilson