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Quotes About Endurance

It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.
~ George Eliot, Adam Bede
What can't be cured must be endured.
~ Old saying
And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough.
~ William Faulkner
Only with winter-patience can we bring the deep-desired, long-awaited Spring.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Accustom yourself to that which you bear ill, and you will bear it well.
~ Seneca the Younger
Patience stoutly resists pulling up the daisies to see how the roots are doing!
~ Neal A. Maxwell
A handful of patience is worth a bushel of brains
~ Hobart Brown
Who can be patient in extremes?
~ William Shakespeare
Your father, Jo. He never loses patience, never doubts or complains, but always hopes, and works and waits so cheerfully that one is ashamed to do otherwise before him.
~ Louisa May Alcott
For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill.
~ Samuel Johnson
Patience means self-suffering.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Patience alleviates, as impatience augments, pain; thus persons of strong will suffer less than those who give way to irritation.
~ Jonathan Swift
Patience mimics the power of infinity.
~ Brandon Mull
Patience has tender feet.
~ Austin O'Malley
The waiting itself is beneficial to us: it tries faith, exercises patience, trains submission, and endears the blessing when it comes.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Set not thyself to attain much rest, but much patience.
~ Thomas a Kempis
I want to accept all the difficulties that face me in life with perseverance and patience.
~ Ameen Rihani
And I must bear What is ordained with patience, being aware Necessity doth front the universe With an invincible gesture.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Patience is the road to wisdom.
~ Kao Kalia Yang
We usually learn to wait only when we have no longer anything to wait for.
~ Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Let nothing disturb thee, Let nothing affright thee; All passeth away: God only shall stay. Patience wins all: Who hath God, needeth nothing; For God is his All.
~ Thomas a Kempis
He needs both patience and speed.
~ Paulo Coelho
I do oppose My patience to his fury, and am arm'd To suffer, with a quietness of spirit, The very tyranny and rage of his.
~ William Shakespeare
The real secret of patience is to find something to do in the meantime.
~ Doug Larson