Patience Quotes
These patience quotes will give you pause to consider the importance of pausing. Yes, sometimes many 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
1.) All in good time.
Horace
2.) Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there someday.
A. A. Milne
3.) Patience is the companion of wisdom.
St. Augustine
4.) Self-reverence, self-knowledge, and self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
5.) Patience is a real self-mastery.
Unknown
6.) Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold.
Leonardo da Vinci
7.) A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops and tumbles to pieces.
Henry Ward Beecher
8.) Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
French Proverb
Funny Patience Quotes
9.) Q. Do I run?
A. Yes, out of patience.
10.) If it doesn’t open, it’s not your door.
Unknown
11.) Patience is the ability to count down before you blast off.
Unknown
12.) Brain: Be Patient.
Heart: For how long?
13.) Don’t trade God’s timing for your deadline.
Unknown
14.) 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
15.) All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
Woodrow T. Wilson
16.) Some things in life are worth waiting for.
Danielle Steel
17.) You usually have to wait for that which is worth waiting for.
Craig Bruce
18.) Good things come to those who wait.
Jess C Scott
19.) 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
20.) There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.
J. G. Holland
21.) Some things are worth the wait.
Tyler Hoechlin
Good Patience Quotes
22.) 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
23.) Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.
Phillips Brooks
24.) The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol
25.) How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
William Shakespeare, Othello
26.) Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Dale Carnegie
Short Patience Quotes
27.) Be patient. Patience is the mother of all virtues.
Hrithik Roshan (the mother of all patience quotes)
28.) Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don’t rush. Be quick, but don’t hurry.
Earl Monroe
29.) If you want to win, be bold but patient.
Unknown
30.) Hard work combined with patience is a superpower.
Maxime Lagace
31.) Keep your head up and be patient.
A. J. McLean
32.) Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
Molière
33.) Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Edmund Burke
Finding Peace Quotations
34.) You’ll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.
George Michael
35.) One minute of patience, ten years of peace.
Greek proverb
36.) 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
37.) We don’t realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.
Elizabeth Gilbert
38.) Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, and quietly building new structures.
John F. Kennedy
39.) If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.
Marvin Gaye
40.) 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
Self-Control Sayings
41.) Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
Elie Wiesel
42.) He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
Tao Te Ching
43.) He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
John Milton
44.) He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
Confucius
45.) Even a little self-control can save you a lot of time, energy, and errors.
Unknown
46.) Self-control is the power within you that holds the reins of anger, intolerance, and impulsiveness.
Unknown
47.) You can’t always control the wind, but you can control your sails.
Unknown
48.) You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself.
Leonardo da Vinci
Patience Quotes From the Bible
49.) Whoever is patient has great understanding, but one who is quick-tempered displays folly.
Proverbs 14:29
50.) And we urge you, brothers, to admonish the unruly, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, and be patient with everyone.
Thessalonians 5:14
51.) Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.
Ephesians 4:2
52.) 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
53.) Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
54.) Patience is a virtue, and I’m learning patience. It’s a tough lesson.
Elon Musk
55.) Patience, persistence, and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
Napoleon Hill
56.) Patience is a virtue. Keep doing what you want to do, and eventually, things will happen.
Arian Foster
57.) Patience is the greatest of all virtues.
Cato the Elder
58.) One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals.
Michelle Obama
Inspirational Quotes About Patience
59.) Patience and perseverance have a magical effect, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
John Quincy Adams
60.) I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, and compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
Lao Tzu
61.) To lose patience is to lose the battle.
Mahatma Gandhi
62.) One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life.
Chinese Proverb
63.) The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.
Arnold H. Glasow
64.) When it comes to patience, we don’t have to change old habits; we can build better ones.
Sue Bender
Patience And Perseverance
65.) Sometimes, things aren’t clear right away. That’s where you need to be patient and persevere and see where things lead.
Mary Pierce
66.) Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in your mind.
David G. Allen
67.) Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
Hal Borland
68.) Patience can’t be acquired overnight. It is just like building up muscle. Every day you need to work on it.
Eknath Easwaran
69.) Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
Barbara Johnson
70.) Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.
Plautus
Powerful Patience Quotes
71.) We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.
Helen Keller
72.) Have patience with all things, But first of all, with yourself.
Saint Francis de Sales
73.) Patience is a conquering virtue.
Geoffrey Chaucer
74.) Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.
George Louis de Buffon
75.) The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
Leo Tolstoy
76.) Beware the fury of a patient man.
John Dryden
77.) 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
78.) Patience is a key element of success.
Bill Gates
79.) Patience is the ornament of the brave. Patience is the real badge of courage; it is equally the mark of love.
Eknath Easwaran
Patience Quotes for Life
80.) I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
Margaret Thatcher
81.) Patience is the support of weakness, and impatience is the ruin of strength.
Charles Caleb Colton
82.) 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
83.) 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
84.) 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
Strength and Patience
85.) The secret of patience is to do something else in the meantime.
Croft M. Pentz
86.) Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is concentrated strength.
Bruce Lee
87.) You can learn many things from children. How much patience do you have, for instance?
Franklin P. Jones
88.) Patience attracts happiness; it brings near that which is far.
Swahili Proverb
89.) Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
James J. Corbett
90.) It is very strange that the years teach us patience – that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
Elizabeth Taylor
91.) Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
Saadi
92.) The most important thing in life is to stop saying ‘I wish’ and start saying ‘I will’. Consider nothing impossible then treat possibilities as probabilities.
Charles Dickens
Be Patient Insights
93.) It’s no use going back to yesterday because I was a different person then.
Alice, Alice In Wonderland
94.) Genius is eternal patience.
Michelangelo
95.) Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset. What is anything in life compared to peace of soul?
Francis de Sales
96.) Tough times never last, but tough people do.
Robert H. Schuller
97.) You overcome obstacles with ease. They are part of your plan.
Maxime Lagacé
98.) It is very strange that the years teach us patience — that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
Elizabeth Taylor
Humorous Patience Quotes
99.) I had my patience tested — I’m negative.
Unknown
100.) If you think I’m short, you should see my patience.
Unknown
101.) The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.
Arnold H. Glasow
By Michael O’Halloran
Michael O’Halloran founded Greeting Card Poet in 2014 and has worked as its publisher and editor ever since. He has co-authored four books on kids’ trivia and four on coaching. Previously, Michael was the president of Magnetic Poetry. He has invented and brought to market over 75 new gift and toy products, most of which involve wordplay. Mike is married and a father of four daughters.
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