Patience Quotes:

I worked with patience which means almost power.

topic: Patience

And I must bear What is ordained with patience, being aware Necessity doth front the universe With an invincible gesture.

topic: Patience, Mean

In your patience ye are strong.

topic: Patience, Bears, Gestures

The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And yes, there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It's called being human.

topic: Patience, Strong

- Elizabeth Edwards

topic: Strength, Patience, Able, Muster

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

- Elizabeth Taylor

source: Elizabeth Taylor (1968). “A wreath of roses”

topic: Inspirational, Patience, Time, Patience And Waiting, Great Patience

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

topic: Patience, Keys, Meditation

Patience makes a woman beautiful in middle age.

- Elliot Paul

topic: Beautiful, Patience, Age

And then--a Day as huge As Yesterdays in pairs, Unrolled its horror in my face-- Until it blocked my eyes

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Patience, Gratitude, Eye, Blocked

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

- Epictetus

topic: Life, Patience, Time, No Patience, I Have No Patience

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

- Epictetus

topic: Wise, Patience, Philosophical

If you create you will also wait, and while you're waiting you will want to be patient but not idle... responses from the world often take a long time.

- Eric Maisel

topic: Patience, Long, Waiting

People ask me a lot about the values I got from playing for the Cubs for so many years. The value I got out of it was patience. A lot of people these days are not very patient.

- Ernie Banks

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Patience, Years, People, Cubs

The work that God does in us when we wait is usually more important than the thing for which we wait!

- Erwin W. Lutzer

source: Erwin W. Lutzer (2007). “When You've Been Wronged: Moving From Bitterness to Forgiveness”, p.45, Moody Publishers

topic: Patience, Christian Inspirational, Waiting

Patience may be a virtue, but quitting is an art.

- Evan Harris

source: Evan Harris (2005). “The Art of Quitting”, Cassell Illustrated

topic: Patience, Art, May

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

- Evelyn Underhill

topic: Patience, Kindness, Opportunity, Kindness And Patience

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

- Francis Bacon

topic: Patience, Optimism, Soul, Keep Patience, No Patience

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

topic: Love, Friendship, Patience, Sweet Friendship, Qualities Of A Friend

We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

topic: Patience, Vanity, People, No Patience

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

- Franz Kafka

topic: Patience, Art, Spring

The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned.

- Fred Brooks

source: "The Mythical Man-Month," Datamation, Dec. 1974

topic: Patience, Children, Matter, Software Engineering, Nine Months

Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

- Friedrich Schiller

topic: Leadership, Patience, Learning, Simple Things, Life Patience

Be patient, my friends; time rolls rapidly away; our longing has its end. The hour will strike, who knows how soon?- when the maternal lap of everlasting Love shall be opened to us, and the full peace of God breathe around us from the palmy summits of Eden.

- Friedrich Wilhelm Krummacher

topic: Patience, Eden, Lap, Everlasting Love, End Times

Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is "timing" it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.

- Fulton J. Sheen

topic: Inspirational, Life, Patience, Life Patience, Worth Waiting For

Patience is the mother of will.

- G. I. Gurdjieff

topic: Patience, Mother

Patience, he thought. So much of this was patience - waiting, and thinking and doing things right. So much of all this, so much of all living was patience and thinking.

- Gary Paulsen

source: Gary Paulsen (2009). “Hatchet”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

topic: Patience, Thinking, Waiting, Patience And Waiting

Teach me to feel that Thou art always nigh; Teach me the struggles of the soul to bear; To check the rising doubt, the rebel sigh; Teach me the patience of unanswered prayer.

- George Croly

source: George Croly (1851). “Scenes from scripture: with other poems”, p.13

topic: Patience, Art, Prayer, Unanswered, Unanswered Prayers

The best fire doesna flare up the soonest.

- George Eliot

topic: Patience, Passion, Fire, Flare Up, Flare

It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.

- George Eliot

topic: Patience, Patient, Reason

Patience is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not.

- George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

topic: Patience, Complaining, Ass

Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.

- George Jackson

source: George Jackson (1970). “Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson”, Chicago Review Press

topic: Inspirational, Patience, Fear, Keep Patience, Patience Is A Virtue

The principle part of faith is patience.

- George MacDonald

topic: Patience, Principles

It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.

- George Santayana

topic: Marriage, Patience, Appreciate

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

source: Speech of CIA Director George Tenet at Georgetown University, www.americanprogress.org. February 5, 2004.

topic: Patience, Thoughtful, Iraq

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

topic: Patience, Inspiration, 4th Of July, Limited Government, World Citizen

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

source: Gertrude Jekyll (2011). “Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur”, p.6, Cambridge University Press

topic: Patience, Teacher, Educational, Inspirational Gardening, Spring Garden

I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.

- Gertrude Stein

topic: Patience, Literature, Patient

Patience! Patience! Patience is the invention of dullards and sluggards. In a well-regulated world there should be no need of such a thing as patience.

- Grace King

source: Grace King, E. Catherine Falvey (1994). “Balcony Stories”, p.4, Rowman & Littlefield

topic: Patience, Needs, World

If but one message, I may leave behind, One single word of courage for my kind, It would be this Â– Oh, brother, sister, friend, Whatever life may bring Â– what God may send, No matter whether clouds life soon or late-- Take heart and wait!

- Grace Noll Crowell

topic: Patience, Brother, Heart, Brother Sister, Sister Friend

Who is the great man? He who is strongest in patience. He who patiently endures injury, and maintains a blameless life--he is a man indeed!

- H. P. Blavatsky

topic: Patience, Men, Injury

Patience leads to power; but eagerness in greed leads to loss.

- H. P. Blavatsky

topic: Patience, Loss, Greed, Eagerness

Endurance is the free companion of Sorrow, and Patience her master.

- H. P. Blavatsky

topic: Patience, Sorrow, Endurance

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

- Hal Borland

source: Hal Borland (2014). “Beyond Your Doorstep: A Handbook to the Country”, p.77, Open Road Media

topic: Strength, Patience, Tree, Keep Patience, Inspirational Tree

The greatest art is to sit, and wait, and let it come.

- Harbhajan Singh Yogi

topic: Patience, Art, Waiting

[On being an actor] .nothing more than a worker in a service occupation . It's like being a waiter or a gas station attendant, but I'm waiting on 6 million people in a week if I'm lucky.

- Harrison Ford

topic: Patience, Time, People

It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait, simply wait much of the time - until my instincts assured me that I had assembled my materials in proper order for a final welding into their natural form.

- Hart Crane

source: Hart Crane (1965). “Letters, 1916-1932”

topic: Patience, Taken, Order, Natural Forms, Welding

This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don't get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can't do anything, don't get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it's ready to come undone. You have to realize it's going to be a long process and that you'll work on things slowly, one at a time.

- Haruki Murakami

topic: Patience, Blow, Tangled

The first lesson to learn is to resign oneself to the little difficulties in life, not to hit out at everything one comes up against. If one were able to manage this one would not need to cultivate great power; even one's presence would be healing.

- Hazrat Inayat Khan

topic: Patience, Healing, Lessons

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

- Helen Keller

topic: Inspirational, Wisdom, Patience, Joy To The World, Resiliency

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

- Helen Keller

topic: Inspirational, Wisdom, Patience, Spiritual Darkness, Darkness To Light

God, teach me to be patient, teach me to go slow

- Helen Steiner Rice

topic: Patience, Patient, Be Patient

A waiting person is a patient person. The word patience means the willingness to stay where we are and live the situation out to the full in the belief that something hidden there will manifest itself to us.

- Henri Nouwen

topic: Patience, Mean, Waiting, Patience And Waiting, Patient Person

Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all.

Every man must patiently bide his time. He must wait -- not in listless idleness but in constant, steady, cheerful endeavors, always willing and fulfilling and accomplishing his task, that when the occasion comes he may be equal to the occasion.

topic: Patience, Justice, Waiting, Exactness

Let nothing disturb thee, Nothing affright thee; All things are passing; God never changeth; Patient endurance Attaineth to all things; Who God possesseth In nothing is wanting; Alone God sufficeth.

topic: Patience, Men, Waiting, Patience And Waiting, Time Patience

Patience; accomplish thy labor; accomplish thy work of affection! Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike. Therefore accomplish thy labor of love, till the heart is made godlike, Purified, strengthened, perfected, and rendered more worthy of heaven.

topic: Patience, Endurance, Patient

Rule by patience, Laughing Water!

topic: Patience, Strong, Heart, Godlike, Labor Of Love

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

topic: Patience, Water, Laughing

- Henry Ward Beecher

topic: Friendship, Patience, Truth, Inconvenient Truth, Painful Truth

There is no such thing as preaching patience into people, unless the sermon is so long that they have to practice it while they hear. No man can learn patience except by going out into the hurlyburly world, and taking life just as it blows. Patience is but lying to, and riding out the gale.

- Henry Ward Beecher

topic: Patience, Lying, Blow

To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the world with more love in small, private matters; to be more faithful in our work, to show greater patience, to forgo the cheap revenge obtainable from mockery and criticism: all these are things we can do.

- Hermann Hesse

topic: Patience, Revenge, People

When you get mad, it's the time you lose

- Hiroko Sakai

topic: Patience, Mad

The fates have given mankind a patient soul.

- Homer

topic: Patience, Fate, Soul

What may not be altered is made lighter by patience.

- Horace

topic: Patience, May, Made

It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.

- Horace Bushnell

source: "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 443), 1895.

topic: Patience, Simple, Men, Great Patience, Being Patience

A true Christian man is distinguished from other men, not so much by his beneficent works, as by his patience.

- Horace Bushnell

source: Horace Bushnell (1866). “The new life”, p.282

topic: Christian, Patience, Men

Christ commands you to take up His cross and follow Him, not that He may humble you, or lay some penance upon you, but that you may surrender the low self-will and the feeble pride of your sin, and ascend into the sublime patience of heavenly charity.

- Horace Bushnell

topic: Patience, Humble, Pride

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

- Hyman Rickover

topic: Life, Motivational, Patience, Patience And Perseverance, Continuous Effort

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

- Isaac Newton

topic: Patience, Science, Thinking

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

topic: Patience, Mean, Oil

There is no well-doing, no Godlike doing, that is not patient doing.

- J. G. Holland

topic: Patience, Patient, Godlike

Patience is the courage of virtue.

- Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

source: Jacques-Henri-Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (1818). “Paul and Virginia: Translated from the French of ...”, p.104

topic: Patience, Virtue

There is something hugely civilised about allowing long pauses in a conversation. Very few people can stand that kind of silence.

- James Robertson

topic: Patience, Long, People, Civilised

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

- James Russell Lowell

source: James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.166, Delphi Classics

topic: Patience, Passion, Heart, Being Patience, Great Hearts

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

- Jean de La Fontaine

source: "The Fables of La Fontaine: Book II". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1668.

topic: Strength, Patience, Passion, Time Patience, Time And Patience

Patience patience quotes is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

topic: Patience, Sweet, Fruit, Turkish, Keep Patience

A classic is like a hidden treasure. Its core is buried under so many layers of varnish that it can be reached only by patience and infiltration.

- Jean-Louis Barrault

topic: Patience, Treasure, Layers, Infiltration, Hidden Treasure

I haven't got a lot of patience.

- Jeffrey Katzenberg

topic: Patience

I have a huge respect for writers and realise that this is not an area that I find easy. I doubt that I would have the patience in front of a blank sheet of paper to become a writer.

- Jenny Agutter

topic: Patience, Doubt, Paper

Waiting and hoping is a hard thing to do when you've already been waiting and hoping for almost as long as you can bear it.

- Jenny Nimmo

source: Jenny Nimmo (2012). “Children of the Red King #2: Charlie Bone and the Time Twister”, p.179, Scholastic Inc.

topic: Patience, Long, Waiting, Waiting And Hoping

Patient waiting is often the highest way of doing God's will.

- Jeremy Collier

topic: Patience, Waiting, Way

I have all the patience in the world about Sirens. For me it's not a Grateful Dead project, it's a Me project.

- Jerry Garcia

topic: Patience, Grateful, World

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 Bishop

topic: Patience, Two, Car, Car Crash, Caskets

Extreme patience and persistence are required, Yet everybody succeeds at this before being handed The surprise box lunch of the rest of his life.

- John Ashbery

topic: Life, Patience, Growing Up, Patience And Persistence

Patience is the art of caring slowly.

- John Ciardi

topic: Patience, Art, Caring

Possess your soul with patience.

- John Dryden

topic: Patience, Soul, Your Soul

Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew.

- John Greenleaf Whittier

source: John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.194

topic: Life, Patience, Peace, Peace Sign, Achieving Peace

Don't put the cart before the horse.

- John Heywood

topic: Patience, Horse, Carts

The more haste, the less speed.

- John Heywood

source: John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.384

topic: Patience, Haste, Speed

The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

- John Major

topic: Patience, Running, Games, Hares

I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.

- John Milton

source: John Milton, James Augustus St. John, Charles Richard Sumner (1872). “The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes”, p.97

topic: Life, Patience, Integrity, Accusers

Arm the obdured breast with stubborn patience as with triple steel.

- John Milton

topic: Patience, Steel, Stubborn, Paradise Lost Book 2

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

On the whole, it is patience which makes the final difference between those who succeed or fail in all things. All the greatest people have it in an infinite degree, and among the less, the patient weak ones always conquer the impatient strong.

topic: Beauty, Patience, Perseverance, Keep Patience, Patience Virtue

Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the time, and not be discouraged at the rests. If we say sadly to ourselves, "There is no music in a rest," let us not forget " there is the making of music in it." The making of music is often a slow and painful process in this life. How patiently God works to teach us! How long He waits for us to learn the lesson!

topic: Patience, Strong, Differences

There's no music in rest, but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the life melody, always talking of perseverance and courage and fortitude; but patience is the finest and worthiest part of fortitude, and the rarest, too.

topic: Patience, Writing, Long