Patience Quotes to Lead a Successful Life

These patience quotes will give you pause to consider the importance of pausing. Yes, sometimes lots of things don’t come as quickly as we’d like. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”

Quotes About Patience

All in good time.
Horace

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there someday.
A. A. Milne

Patience is the companion of wisdom.
St. Augustine

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, and self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Patience is a real self-mastery.
Unknown

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold.
Leonardo da Vinci

A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops and tumbles to pieces.
Henry Ward Beecher

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
French Proverb

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

Funny Patience Quotes

Q. Do I run?
A. Yes, out of patience.

If it doesn’t open, it’s not your door.
Unknown

Patience is the ability to count down before you blast off.
Unknown

Brain: Be Patient.
Heart: For how long?

Don’t trade God’s timing for your deadline.
Unknown

Patience is an act of love every day when you are patient with your toddlers or your husband who can’t remember to put the toilet seat down.
Sharon Hodde Miller

Best Patience Quotes

All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
Woodrow T. Wilson

Some things in life are worth waiting for.
Danielle Steel

You usually have to wait for that which is worth waiting for.
Craig Bruce

Good things come to those who wait.
Jess C Scott

Whatever we are waiting for — peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance — it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.
Sarah Ban Breathnach

There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.
J. G. Holland

Some things are worth the wait.
Tyler Hoechlin

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Good Patience Quotes

If it comes, let it come. If it goes, it’s ok, let it go. Let things come and go. Stay calm, don’t let anything disturb your peace, and carry on.
Germany Kent

Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.
Phillips Brooks

The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Short Patience Quotes

Be patient. Patience is the mother of all virtues.
Hrithik Roshan (the mother of all patience quotes)

Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don’t rush. Be quick, but don’t hurry.
Earl Monroe

If you want to win, be bold but patient.
Unknown

Keep your head up and be patient.
A. J. McLean

Finding Peace Quotations

You’ll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.
George Michael

One minute of patience, ten years of peace.
Greek proverb

Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is rather than as you think it should be.
Wayne W. Dyer

We don’t realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, and quietly building new structures.
John F. Kennedy

If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.
Marvin Gaye

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
Eleanor Roosevelt

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Self-Control Sayings

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
Elie Wiesel

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
Tao Te Ching

He who reigns within himself, and rules passions, desires, and fears, is more than a king.
John Milton

He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
Confucius

Even a little self-control can save you a lot of time, energy, and errors.
Unknown

Self-control is the power within you that holds the reins of anger, intolerance, and impulsiveness.
Unknown

You can’t always control the wind, but you can control your sails.
Unknown

You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself.
Leonardo da Vinci

Patience Quotes From the Bible

Whoever is patient has great understanding, but one who is quick-tempered displays folly.
Proverbs 14:29

And we urge you, brothers, to admonish the unruly, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, and be patient with everyone.
Thessalonians 5:14

Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.
Ephesians 4:2

My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to become angry.
James 1:19

Patience is a virtue

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Patience is a virtue, and I’m learning patience. It’s a tough lesson.
Elon Musk

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

Patience is a virtue. Keep doing what you want to do, and eventually, things will happen.
Arian Foster

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.
Cato the Elder

Inspirational Quotes About Patience

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

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, and compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
Lao Tzu

To lose patience is to lose the battle.
Mahatma Gandhi

One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life.
Chinese Proverb

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.
Arnold H. Glasow

When it comes to patience, we don’t have to change old habits; we can build better ones.
Sue Bender

Patience And Perseverance

Sometimes things aren’t clear right away. That’s where you need to be patient and persevere and see where things lead.
Mary Pierce

Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in your mind.
David G. Allen

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
Hal Borland

Patience can’t be acquired overnight. It is just like building up muscle. Every day you need to work on it.
Eknath Easwaran

Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
Barbara Johnson

Powerful Patience Quotes

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

Have patience with all things, But first of all, with yourself.
Saint Francis de Sales

Patience is a conquering virtue.
Geoffrey Chaucer

Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.
George Louis de Buffon

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
Leo Tolstoy

Beware the fury of a patient man.
John Dryden

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 J.M. Nouwen

Patience is a key element of success.
Bill Gates

Patience Quotes for Life

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
Margaret Thatcher

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.
Plautus

Patience is the support of weakness impatience the ruin of strength.
Charles Caleb Colton

Patience is the ornament of the brave. Patience is the real badge of courage; it is equally the mark of love.
Eknath Easwaran

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses, and disappointments, but let us have patience, and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
Joseph Addison

The secret of patience is to do something else in the meantime.
Croft M. Pentz

Strength and Patience

Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is concentrated strength.
Bruce Lee

You can learn many things from children. How much patience do you have, for instance?
Franklin P. Jones

Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.
Paulo Coelho

Patience attracts happiness; it brings near that which is far.
Swahili Proverb

Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
James J. Corbett

It is very strange that the years teach us patience – that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
Elizabeth Taylor

Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
Saadi

By Mike O’Halloran

O’Halloran, the editor of Greeting Card Poet, recognizes that patience isn’t one of his strong suits.

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