Patience Quotes

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

Ambrose Bierce

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

The road to success leads through the valley of humility, and the path is up the ladder of patience and across the wide barren plains of perseverance. As yet, no short cut has ever been discovered.

Joseph J. Lam

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

John Quincy Adams

Patience makes lighter What sorrow may not heal.

Horace

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

A great preservative against angry and mutinous thoughts, and all impatience and quarreling, is to have some great business and interest in your mind, which, like a sponge shall suck up your attention and keep you from brooding over what displeases you.

Joseph Rickaby

Whoever is out of patience is out of possession of his soul. Men must not turn into bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.

Sir Francis Bacon

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elde

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

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

Dr. Laurence J. Pete

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

Napolean Hill

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 is the companion of wisdom.

Saint Augustine

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?

Elbert Hubbard

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

Thucydides

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

Dutch Prove

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self - Control. Against such things, there is no law.

The Apostle Paul (Saul of Tarsus), The Bible - Galations 5: 22 - 23 NIV

Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.

George - Louis Leclerc de Buffon

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

C. S. Robinson

But thou, O man of God, flee these things and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.

1 Timothy 611 Bible

Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus, Rudens

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

Hyman Rickove

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

William Shakespeare

Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.

George - Louis Leclerc de Buffon

Patience is the key to paradise.

Turkish Prove

To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.

Samuel Johnson

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

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

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Aristotle

All human power is a compound of time and patience.

Honore de Balzac

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

All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.

Thomas Fulle