Patience Quotes
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success.
All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Patience is also a form of action.
If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.
To lose patience is to lose the battle.
Patience is the key to contentment.
He that can have patience can have what he will.
All fruits do not ripen in one season.
In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Be still and allow the mud to settle.
Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.
Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own.
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
Slow but steady wins the race.
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 be powerless to vex your mind.
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.
I think and think for months and years, ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.
If you add a little to a little, and then do it again, soon that little shall be much.
Patience and the passage of time do more than strength and fury.
An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains.
Patience: A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.
The years teach what the days never know.
It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.
One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life.
Patience is passion tamed.
There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.
Infinite patience brings immediate results.
Nothing great 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.
Patience is power; with time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes silk.
It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.
To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forego even ambition when the end is gained" - who can say this is not greatness?
Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.
Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.
Genius is eternal patience.
Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.
Patience is not active; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.
The strongest of all warriors are these two - Time and Patience.
My son, observe the postage stamp! Its usefulness depends upon its ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Perfection is attained by slow degrees; she requires the hand of time.
All's well in the end, if you've only the patience to wait.
In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
Walk slowly, you'll get further.
Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.
Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
Patience in the present, faith in the future, and joy in the doing.
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.
Let me look upward into the branches of the flowering oak and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well.
Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew.
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.
Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.
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.
