Patience Quotes

A collection of revealing patience quotes to live by that give a true view into what others consider being the finest attributes of having patience. Patience is one of those qualities that give you a special ranking among thousands of people especially those who work in team environments or to those who dedicate their lives to helping others.

We need the challenge relationships provide by calling us out on our prejudices, and we need people - partners, friends, casual acquaintances, and even strangers - who will walk with us as we make our way to our soul's potential.
Kathy Freston, The One, Finding Soul Mate Love And Making It Last

Discipline is doing what you really don't want to do so that you can do what you really want to do.
~ Barry Silverstein, Motivating Employees

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

Patience is a virtue but you will never ever accomplish anything if you don't exercise action over patience.
Byron Pulsifer

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

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

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes,
packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach
patience to its young?
Paul Sweeney

Patience: A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.
Ambrose Bierce

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


Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears. - Barbara Johnson
Patience permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord when we are tossed about by suffering as if by surf. When the undertow grasps us we will realize that we are somehow being carried forward even as we tumble. We are actually being -helped even as we cry for help.
Neal A. Maxwell

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in one ahead.
Bill Mcglashen

Consider the hour-glass; there is nothing to be accomplished by rattling or shaking; you have to wait patiently until the sand, grain by grain, has run from one funnel into the other.
John Christian Morgenstern

If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent. - Sir Isaac Newton At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that the young man or the young woman must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right. He must train himself in ruthless intolerance--that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph. The most important thing is insight, that is to be--curious--to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don't think the talent makes much difference, whether you've got it or not.
William Faulkner

To sit patiently with a yearning that has not yet been fulfilled, and to trust that, that fulfillment will come, is quite possibly one of the most powerful ‘magic skills’ that human beings are capable of. It has been noted by almost every ancient wisdom tradition.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Who can wait quietly until the mud settles? Who can remain still until the moment of action?
Lao Tzu

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. To dig for treasures shows not only impatience and greed, but lack of faith. Patience, patience, patience, is what the sea teaches. Patience and faith. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach--waiting for a gift from the sea.
Anne Morrow Lindberg

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

Patience, n. -- A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.
Ambrose Bierce

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.
Titus Maccius Plautus

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 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

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


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