Patience Quotes

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
It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.
– C. S. Lewis
The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.
– Lawrence G. Lovasik
With rispect to all those persons whose names are entered on this roll, I feel a peculiar pleasure in declaring, that the Ample support which they gave me under every difficulty; the manly firmness which they evinced on every necessary occasion; and the patience and fortitude with which they submited to, and bore, the fatigues and painful sufferings incident to my late tour to the Pacific Ocean, entitles them to my warmest approbation and thanks.
– Meriwether Lewis
The principal part of faith is patience.
– George MacDonald
An organization that is strong and stable and is ready to commit time, money, and patience will be more apt to reap rewards than the quick-hitting opportunist.
– Richard Miller
Patience is the key to contentment.
– Mohammed
To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Never suffer your courage to exert itself in fierceness, your resolution in obstinacy, your wisdom in cunning, nor your patience in sullenness and despair.
– Charles Palmer
Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
– John Ruskin
And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources, had trained me with skill and patience, and had shown me nothing but forbearance and charity when I failed in trust.
– Simon Raven
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
– Leo Tolstoy
Whoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little constant and the rumours so little founded on truth.
– De la Vega
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
– George Washington
I think that wherever your journey takes you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience - and laughter.
– Susan M. Watkins
It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.
– Khaleda Zia
With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
– Chinese Proverb
Character is the salesperson’s stock in trade. The product itself is secondary. Truthfulness, enthusiasm and patience are great assets to every salesperson. Without them, they couldn’t go far. Courage and courtesy are essential equipment.
– George M. Adams
What can that faith do for him in his need?
It teaches him to bear adversity
With patience that may shame a better creed.
– Robert Ferguson
Patience makes lighter
What sorrow may not heal.
– Horace
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
– William H. Borah
Patience is the greatest of all virtues.
– Cato the Elder
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
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
– Immanuel Kant
The important thing is to know when to laugh, or since laughing is somewhat undignified to smile. But the smile must be of the right kind must have understanding in it, and friendliness, and a good deal of patience.
– Roderic Owen
A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.
– Dutch Proverb
The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this.
– Real Live Preacher
Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering you own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew.
– Saint Francis de Sales
Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the king's English.
– William Shakespeare
It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
– Elizabeth Taylor
The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.
– Thucydides
You have to respect your parents. They are giving you an at-bat. If you're an entrepreneur and go into the family business, you want to grow fast. Patience is important. But respect the other party... My dad and I pulled it off because we really respect each other.
– Gary Vaynerchuk
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
– Franklin P. Jones
While it is true that Frank had a great sense of humor, he was also very serious about composing music. In reality there are only a handful of skilled players who can play his most complex pieces. It takes a lot of patience to learn and requires a fantastic memory.
– Dweezil Zappa
When I was 20, I thought I was 30 - but I was so far from it. When you're young, you want everything to happen now. As you mature, you can look back and see all the great things you achieved with time and patience.
– Elisha Cuthbert
When I said a few weeks ago that our people would eat cooking oil and olives if necessary, I didn't mean that there really would be only oil and olives. What I meant was that our people have the necessary patience to endure the current difficult situation. Palestinians would rather do without certain food items than their national rights.
– Ismail Haniyeh
We had great faith that with patience, understanding, and education, that my family and I could be helpful in changing their minds and attitudes around.
– Ryan White
To understand a difficult topic like Iraq takes patience and care. Unfortunately, you rarely hear a patient, careful or thoughtful discussion of intelligence these days.
– George Tenet
There's not a lot of room anymore for what I call 'made-up' drama. The drama comes from real places now - marriage takes work and focus, the kid stuff takes patience and commitment. And if you don't grow as people and as a couple, within all of that, then you've got some real drama.
– Jeremy Sisto
There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.
– Abu Bakr
The principle part of faith is patience.
– George MacDonald
Republican patience with how unionism deals with the political institutions, and with key issues like equality and human rights, will be tested because, obviously, there will be a battle a day on these matters. So lets face up to all of this with our eyes wide open.
– Gerry Adams
Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.
– Titus Maccius Plautus
Patience is the secret to good food.
– Gail Simmons
Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.
– Guy Kawasaki
One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.
– Carl Hiaasen
Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly communication this, joined with patience and kindness, will seldom fail with the natives of the interior.
– Charles Sturt
It's amazing. My kids have grown me in ways I never knew possible. The patience I've received and the love I get from them is just amazing.
– Candace Cameron Bure
It's a war of attrition. If you have patience and a modicum of faith in yourself your chances are not too bad.
– Julie Bowen
It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.
– George Santayana
In movies, there are some things the French do that Americans are increasingly incapable of doing. One is honoring the complexities of youth. It's a quiet, difficult undertaking, requiring subtlety in a filmmaker and perception and patience from us.
– Wesley Morris
I'd like to be more patient! I just want everything now. I've tried to meditate, but it's really hard for me to stay still. I'd like to try to force myself to do it, because everybody says how wonderful meditation is for you, but I can't shut my mind up. So patience and learning is the key.
– Ellen DeGeneres
I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves.
– Major Taylor
I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.
– David Hobson
I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul.
– Dick Dale
I don't have a lot of patience for boring arthouse movies.
– Zoe Kazan
God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.
– Richard Cecil
God gives me the children's ministry heart and patience. This is what He wants. It's awesome. I don't know where He's gonna take it - but God is building this thing.
– Willie Aames
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
Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.
– May Sarton
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
– Harriet Tubman
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
– Carl Jung
Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
– James Russell Lowell
Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.
– Alice Walker
Beauty, unlike the rest of the gifts handed out at birth, does not require dedication, patience and hard work to pay off. But it's also the only gift that does not keep on giving.
– Paulina Porizkova
And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass, and it seems like all is lost - Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward... with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.
– Michelle Obama
All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.
– Thomas a Kempis
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
– Moliere
A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness it teaches industry and thrift above all it teaches entire trust.
– Gertrude Jekyll
A final word: I am not knowledgeable about the internet. I do not have a computer. I guess that at 74 years of age, I don't have the patience to learn.
– David Wilkerson