Patience Quotes

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

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.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.

If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.

Beware the fury of a patient man.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them, we die long before women do, with our hearts exploding or our blood pressure rising or our livers eaten away by alcohol because that lake of grief inside us has no outlet. We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough.

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

If you pray about it don't worry about it. If you're going to worry about it don't pray about it.

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

The country is in deep trouble. We've forgotten that a rich life consists fundamentally of serving others, trying to leave the world a little better than you found it. We need the courage to question the powers that be, the courage to be impatient with evil and patient with people, the courage to fight for social justice. In many instances we will be stepping out on nothing, and just hoping to land on something. But that's the struggle. To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word.

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

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

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

Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.

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

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world.

I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint.

Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.

A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.

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

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.

For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching has become a regular habit, until he is able to admit and accept what he finds, and until he patiently and persistently tries to correct what is wrong.

Good things come to those who hustle

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.

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

Generosity is another quality which, like patience, letting go, non-judging, and trust, provides a solid foundation for mindfulness practice. You might experiment with using the cultivation of generosity as a vehicle for deep self-observation and inquiry as well as an exercise in giving. A good place to start is with yourself. See if you can give yourself gifts that may be true blessings, such as self-acceptance, or some time each day with no purpose. Practice feeling deserving enough to accept these gifts without obligation-to simply receive from yourself, and from the universe.

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

Watch a French housewife as she makes her way slowly along the loaded stalls... searching for the peak of ripeness and flavor... What you are seeing is a true artist at work, patiently assembling all the materials of her craft, just as the painter squeezes oil colors onto his palette ready to create a masterpiece.

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

Patience is also a form of action.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

Hope is patience with the lamp lit.

Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.

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

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.

With love and patience, nothing is impossible.

Humility is attentive patience.

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

They also serve who only stand and wait.

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.

I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.

There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.

To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success.

I look in the mirror through the eyes of the child that was me.

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

Patience and fortitude conquer all things.

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.

Patience is passion tamed.

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.

There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them.

If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.

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

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!

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

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

Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.

When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.

Never cut what you can untie.

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

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?

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

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

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

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

Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.

A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it's tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows?

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Patience is the best medicine.

Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry.

Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.

For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

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

There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience.

Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

The principle part of faith is patience.

I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory.

Patience makes a woman beautiful in middle age.

Golf puts a man's character on the anvil and his richest qualities - patience, poise, restraint - to the flame.

But the waiting time, my brothers, Is the hardest time of all.