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Quotes About Patience

How many years must a man do nothing, before he can at all know what is to be done and how to do it!
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The tide tarrieth no man.
~ John Heywood
When a man's mind rides faster than his horse can gallop they quickly both tire.
~ John Webster
I told God I'd be back in a second. Man it's so hard not to act reckless.
~ Kanye West
Sometimes a man doesn't know what to do about things and sometimes it's best to lie very still and try not to think at all about anything.
~ Charles Bukowski
A man of understanding finds less difficulty in submitting to a wrong-headed fellow, than in attempting to set him right.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
And he who lives a hundred years, idle and weak, a life of one day is better if a man has attained firm strength.
~ Gautama Buddha
We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinnertime.
~ George Eliot
I'm going to teach you about men. Distances are like men. Never grab the first one you see; it's never the best one, more will come along.
~ George H. Morris
No man can give me any word but Wait.
~ Gwendolyn Brooks
Give a man a program, frustrate him for a day. Teach a man to program, frustrate him for a lifetime.
~ Muhammad Waseem
Old men only lie in wait for people to ask them to talk. Then they rattle on like a rusty elevator wheezing up a shaft.
~ Ray Bradbury
The man that will nocht quhen he may Sall haif nocht quhen he wald.
~ Robert Henryson
Everything comes to the man who won't wait.
~ Ada Leverson
Man doesnt have the patience or the power to wait. But God does. He has all eternity to accomplish His purposes.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
Call no day happy 'til it is done; call no man happy til he is dead.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Training can get on a man's nerves. There is no profit or use in denying it.
~ Alfred Shrubb
I'm a good person and I don't think I'll be left on my own. I don't know when I'll meet a man - I think I'm rushing it. But I am tired of working and not having someone.
~ Beyonce Knowles
A glimpse is not a vision. But to a man on a mountain road by night, a glimpse of the next three feet of road may matter more than a vision of the horizon.
~ C. S. Lewis
Tell no man anything, for no man listens Yet hold thy lips ready to speak.
~ Carl Sandburg
Experience only can teach men not to prefer what strikes them for the present moment, to what will have much greater weight with the them hereafter.
~ Lord Chesterfield
Man must suffer to be wise.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
A man must learn to endure patiently what he cannot avoid conveniently.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Other men's pains are easily borne.
~ Miguel de Cervantes