Patience Quotes

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

Augustine

Patience is a virtue.

The most overlooked and underappreciated growth strategy is patience. (More specifically, consistently producing great work over a long time horizon.)

James Clear

Patience wins.

L A de Bast

Patience is power.

Ahmed Vesik

Patience is genius.

Buffon

Patience is sorrow’s salve.

C Churchill

Patience surpasses learning.

N Hartsoeker

Patience is the art of hoping.

Vauvenargues

Patience is the key of content.

Mahomet

Patience is the key to paradise.

Al-Farabi

Patience discovers a man’s merit.

As-Sakali

Patience is a bandaid for all sores.

Patience is an even sea in all winds.

Lockyer

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

Leo Tolstoy

To lose patience is to lose the battle.

Mahatma Gandhi

Patience attracts happiness; it brings near that which is far.

Swahili Proverb

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Pericles

All great achievements require time.

Maya Angelou

Being able to wait is so hard that the greatest poets did not disdain to make the inability to wait the theme of their poetry.

Nietzsche

Patience is the best remedy for all evils.

Theodosius III

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

La Fontaine

Patience, money and time bring all things to pass.

Margaret de Lussan

With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes satin.

Al-Kendi

To be patient is sometimes better than to have much wealth.

Talmud

It eases me when I bear with patience the yoke upon my neck.

Pindarus

The remedy of injuries is by continual patience to learn to forget them.

Socrates

Bear with patience whatever sorrow, time or fortune bring upon you.

Calderon

The best moral argument to patience is the advantages of patience itself.

Tillotson

Patience is so like fortitude that she seems either her sister or her daughter.

Aristotle

Patience is the virtue of an ass, that trots beneath his burden and is quiet.

Landsdowne

Patience is a light or guide to help the soul perceive the insignificance of trials.

Mrs M Fletcher

Patience is even more rarely manifested in the intellect than it is in the temper.

A Helps

Patience makes that more tolerable which it is impossible to prevent or remove.

Horace

The conflict of patience is such that the vanquished is better than the vanquisher.

Euripides

People often fail in patience under small trials, because they look only to secondary motives for support.

Mrs Cameron

A patient and humble temper gathers blessings that are marred by the peevish, and overlooked by the aspiring.

E H Chapin

No school is more necessary to children than patience, because either the will must be broken in childhood, or the heart in old age.

Richter

Patience is the finest and worthiest part of fortitude, and the rarest, too: it lies at the root of all pleasures, as well as of all powers.

Ruskin

I compare patience to a most precious jewel: though no ray of light comes near it, it is radiant with imperishable beauty; its brightness remains even in the deep night.

Krummacher

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

Bruyere

All that I have accomplished, or expect or hope to accomplish, has been and will be by that plodding, patient, persevering process of accretion which builds the ant-heap, particle by particle, thought by thought, fact by fact.

E Burritt

Patience is the soul of peace.

The best of men that ever wore earth about him was a sufferer – a soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit: the first true gentleman that ever breathed.

T Decker

Patience is the ballast of the soul, that will keep it from rolling and tumbling in the greatest storms.

E Hopkins

If thou intendest to vanquish the greatest, the most abominable, and wickedest enemy, who is able to do thee mischief both in body and soul, and against whom thou preparest all sorts of weapons, but cannot overcome, then know that there is a sweet and loving physical herb to serve thee, named Patientia.

Luther

Patience sweetens the temper, stifles anger, extinguishes envy, subdues pride; she bridles the tongue, refrains the hand, tramples upon temptations, endures persecutions; patience produces harmony in families and societies; she comforts the poor and moderates the rich; she makes us humble in prosperity, cheerful in adversity, unmoved by calumny and reproach; she teaches us to forgive those who have injured us, and to be the first in asking forgiveness of those whom we have injured; she adorns the woman, and approves the man; is loved in a child, praised in a young man, admired in an old man; she is beautiful in either sex and every age.

G Horne

Patience is a fruit of the spirit that grows only under trial.

Joyce Meyer

One minute of patience, ten years of peace.

Greek Proverb

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

John Quincy Adams

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Plautus

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

Lao Tzu

Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.

Phillips Brooks

Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

Molière

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

Helen Keller

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

Lao Tzu

Patience and fortitude conquer all things.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

With love and patience, nothing is impossible.

Daisaku Ikeda

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.

George Savile

Patience is not passive, on the contrary, it is concentrated strength.

Bruce Lee

Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.

Virgil

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

Einstein

Patience is the key to paradise.

Turkish Proverb

Slow and steady wins the race.

Aesop

At the gate of patience there is no crowding.

Moroccan Proverb

Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.

Peter Marshall

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

Francis Bacon

Have patience with all things but first of all with yourself.

Francis de Sales

No great thing is created suddenly.

Epictetus

Genius is eternal patience.

Michelangelo

Genius is patience.

Isaac Newton

Patience is a conquering virtue.

Chaucer

Endurance is patience concentrated.

Thomas Carlyle

Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.

George-Louis de Buffon

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

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

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.

Leonardo da Vinci

Grain by grain a loaf, stone by stone, a castle.

Yugoslavian saying

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

Hesiod

The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in adversity.

Seneca

What may not be altered is made lighter by patience.

Horace

Mastery requires both impatience and patience. The impatience to have a bias toward action, to not waste time, and to work with a sense of urgency each day. The patience to delay gratification, to wait for your actions to accumulate, and to trust the process.

James Clear

Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind.

David Allen

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

Woodrow Wilson

No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility.

Orson F Whitney

Most people optimize for the day ahead. A few people optimize for 1-2 years ahead. Almost nobody optimizes for 3-4 years ahead (or longer). The person who is willing to delay gratification longer than most reduces competition and gains a decisive advantage. Patience is power.

James Clear

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

Edison

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

Augustine of Hippo

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Benjamin Franklin

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Shakespeare

Everything comes if a man will only wait.

Benjamin Disraeli

Slow is every foot on an unknown path.

Irish Proverb

Patience is a key element of success.

Bill Gates

Patience is a bitter thing, but its fruit is sweet.

Sadi

All human wisdom is contained in these two words, Wait and Hope.

Alexandre Dumas

All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.

American Proverb

Bear and forbear.

English Proverb

Patience is the particular virtue we need to help us to bear sadness in such a way that we do not abandon the good course for our lives.

What you become while you wait is more important than what you are waiting for.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Benjamin Franklin

I never knew a storm that didn’t blow itself out.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Benjamin Franklin

Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind.

David Allen

Never cut what you can untie.

Robert Frost