Patience Quotes

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

William Shakespeare

Patience with others is Love, Patience with self is Hope, Patience with God is Faith.

Adel Bestavros

When clouds form in the skies we know that rain will follow but we must not wait for it. Nothing will be achieved by attempting to interfere with the future before the time is ripe. Patience is needed.

I Ching

Jenny replied to this with a bitterness which might have surprized a judicious person, who had observed the tranquillity with which she bore all the affronts to her chastity; but her patience was perhaps tired out, for this is a virtue which is very apt to be fatigued by exercise.

Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

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

Baltasar Gracian

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

Franz Kafka

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

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.

Molire

Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Benjamin Franklin

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

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

John Quincy Adams

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

Elizabeth Taylor, "A Wreath of Roses".

There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise, it is because of indolence that they do not return. Yet perhaps there is only one major sin: impatience. Because of impatience they were expelled, because of impatience they do not return.

Franz Kafka

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.

Dr. Laurence J. Pete

The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.

Thucydides

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, reallivepreacher. com weblog, September 4, 2003

Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.

George - Louis Leclerc de Buffon

When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets.

Jim

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Aristotle

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.

Helen Kelle

All human power is a compound of time and patience.

Honore de Balzac

To bemoan the messiness of politics is not just a folly it betrays a dangerous impatience with basic realities. It is like becoming disturbed that people do not fall in love sensibly - - And so deciding to computerize the problem.

Theodore Roszak

Infinite patience brings immediate results.

Wayne W Dye

All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.

Thomas Fulle

Purity, patience, and preserverance are the three essentials to success, and above all love.

Swami Vivekananda

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

C. S. Robinson

If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.

Hal Borland

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

Joseph Addison

There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.

Samuel Johnson, Taxation No Tyranny

Have patience awhile slanders are not long - Lived. Truth is the child of time erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

Immanuel Kant

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

Peter Marshall

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Franklin P. Jones

The greatest power is often simple patience.

E. Joseph Crossman

Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.

Ambrose Bierce

Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.

George - Louis Leclerc de Buffon

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