Top 100+ Patience Quotes

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“It’s not that I’m so smart,it’s just that I stay with problems longer.“ – Albert Einstein

Whether it’s marriage of business, patience is the first rule of success.

“Patience makes a women beautiful in middle age”

“What cannot be removed, becomes lighter through patience”

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

The greatest prayer is patience. – Gautama Buddha

Patience is the determination to exist when everything wants you to shatter. -RAY PARKER

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

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.

“Patience is poultice for all wounds.”

“Patience is counting down without blasting off”

There is no such thing as preaching patience into people, unless the sermon is so long that they have to practice it while they hear. No man can learn patience except by going out into the hurlyburly world, and taking life just as it blows. Patience is but lying to, and riding out the gale. – HENRY WARD BEECHER

Who can be patient in extremes? – William Shakespeare

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

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

“Patience is drawing on underlying forces, it is powerfully positive, though to a natural view it looks like just sitting it out. How would I persist against positive eroding forces if I were not drawing on invisible forces? And patience has a positive tonic effect on others; because of the presence of the patient person, they revive and go on, as if he were the gyroscope of the ship providing a stable ground. But the patient person himself does not enjoy it.”

“It doesn’t always happen right away.”

 You can chase a butterfly all over the field and never catch it. But if you sit quietly in the grass it will come and sit on your shoulder.

“If I have made any valuable discoveries,it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.” -Sir Isaac Newton

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

“Learning patience can be a difficult experience, but once conquered you will find life is easier.

“There is a fruit of the Spirit that must accompany the gift of healing and that is longsuffering.”- Smith Wigglesworth

A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.

“Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”- Molière

Infinite patience brings immediate results. – Wayne Dyer

Everything comes to those who wait… except a cat.

Patience and wisdom walk hand in hand, like two one-armed lovers. – Jarod Kintz

“Have patience, my friend, have patience; For Rome wasn’t built in a day! You wear yourself out for nothing In many and many a way! Why are you nervous and fretty When things do not move along fast; Why let yourself get excited Over things that will soon be past?”- Gertrude Tooley Buckingham

“One minute of patience, ten years of peace.”

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

Our patience will achieve more than our force. – Edmund Burke

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

“If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.”

Even a snail will eventually reach its destination.

For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.

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

Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting – Joyce Meyer

Be yourself. Be true to that, to your heart. Patience. See what happens if you step back instead of bounding forward. – Nora Roberts

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

For everything there is a season,

And a time for every matter under heaven:

A time to be born, and a time to die;

A time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;

A time to kill, and a time to heal;

A time to break down, and a time to build up;

A time to weep, and a time to laugh;

A time to mourn, and a time to dance;

A time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together;

A time to embrace, And a time to refrain from embracing;

A time to seek, and a time to lose;

A time to keep, and a time to throw away;

A time to tear, and a time to sew;

A time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

A time to love, and a time to hate,

A time for war, and a time for peace.

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

No road is too long for him who advances slowly and does not hurry, and no attainment is beyond his reach who equips himself with patience to achieve it.

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Patience is the “gatekeeper” between the two worlds of our unconscious impulses and our conscious choices. – HYDER ZAHED

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

There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.

“The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.” – Paulo Coelho

We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world. – Helen Keller

Patience is sottish, and impatience does become a dog that’s mad.

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

Endurance is the crowning quality,

And patience all the passion of great hearts.

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“It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.” – Julius Caesar

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

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

“It is better to have a hen tomorrow than an egg today.” – Thomas Fuller

“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.” – Aristotle

Patience is no small, feel-good personal quality. It is at the heart of diplomacy and civility, lawfulness and civil order. Without it, people can’t work together and society can’t function at all. With it, we create the possibility of peace between people and between nations. – MARY JANE RYAN

One moment of patience may ward off great disaster.  One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life.

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

Plant the seed of love, water it daily, and patiently watch it grow.” -Michelle C. Ustaszeski

“Great things are not accomplished by idle dreams, but by years of patient study.”- James H. Aughey

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success. – Napoleon Hill

Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

proverbs on patience

“Patience is power.

Patience is not an absence of action;

rather it is “timing”

it waits on the right time to act,

for the right principles

and in the right way.”

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

 “Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.” – James J. Corbett

Find patience or it will never find you. – Mike Dolan

It has been said, “Patience is a virtue” and “good things come to those who wait.” Do you get annoyed when things don’t happen fast enough? Do you tap your foot impatiently or keep looking at your watch when waiting on line?

“Doing interesting work when nobody notices takes patience and belief.”

“There is no enemy can hurt us but by our own hands. Satan could not hurt us, if our own corruption betrayed us not. Afflictions cannot hurt us without our own impatience. Temptations cannot hurt us, without our own yieldance. Death could not hurt us, without the sting of our own sins. Sins could not hurt us, without our own impenitence.”

– Joseph Hall

A classic is like a hidden treasure. Its core is buried under so many layers of varnish that it can be reached only by patience and infiltration.

Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.

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

Slow and steady wins the race. –  Aesop

“Stressors are everywhere. Each and every day, we run into situations that constantly test us, rob us of our patience, strip us of our sanity, impact our focus, and cause us to lose control of our days.”

“The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.”

He that can have patience can have what he will – Benjamin Franklin.

Genius is eternal patience. –  Michelangelo

“A waiting person is a patient person. The word patience means the willingness to stay where we are and live the situation out to the full in the belief that something hidden there will manifest itself to us.” – Henri J.M. Nouwen

“Patience is very important in the process of becoming a published author, I tell you.”

At the bottom of patience one finds heaven.

“Humility and patience are the surest proofs of the increase of love.”- John Wesley

 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

Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.  ~George-Louis de Buffon

Patience is better than wisdom: an ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains. All men praise patience, but few enough can practise it; it is a medicine which is good for all diseases, and therefore every old woman recommends it; but it is not every garden that grows the herbs to make it with. ~Charles H. Spurgeon 

“Nature, time and patience are three great physicians.” -H.G. Bohn

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

Beware the fury of a patient man. – JOHN DRYDEN

Unless patience is founded on hope, it stagnates.

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

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.

“God bestows upon one man genius without patience and upon another man patience without genius. The relative achievements of the two are often surprising.” – Walter C. Klein

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

A wise man does not try to hurry history. Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.

“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.”

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.

“I thought tonight was a solid, patient game and patience paid off,”