Patience Quotes

"For what cannot be cured patience is best."
-Irish Proverb

"How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees."
-William Shakespeare

"Our patience will achieve more than our force."
-Edmund Burke

"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 then be powerless to vex your mind."
-Leonardo da Vinci

"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

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

"Patience is the greatest of all virtues."
-Cato the Elder

"You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience."
-Stanislaw J. Lec

"I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end."
-Margaret Thatcher

"You usually have to wait for that which is worth waiting for."
-Craig Bruce

"Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success."
-Brian Adams

"There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness."
-Franz Kafka

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with one small step."
-Old Chinese Proverb

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

"As you put into practice the qualities of patience, punctuality, sincerity, and solicitude, you will have a better opinion of the world around you."
-Grenville Kleiser

"Patience is a flatterer, sir and an ass, sir."
-Aphra Behn

"Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears."
-Barbara Johnson

"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

"Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice."
-George Jackson

"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

"Dear God, I pray for patience.And I want if RIGHT NOW!"
-Oren Arnold

"Who waits until the wind shall silent keep, Will never find the ready hour to sow."
-Helen Fiske Hunt Jackson

"Patience is the mother of will."
-George Gurdjieff

"If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking."
-Buddhist Proverb

"Hope is patience with the lamp lit."
-Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake."
-Victor Hugo

"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

"It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting."
-Elizabeth Taylor