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Quotes About Patience

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
~ Hal Borland
For me, the essence of a medicine man's life is to be humble, to have great patience, to be close to the Earth, to live as simply as possible, and to never stop learning.
~ Archie Fire Lame Deer
Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation's compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain love for one another.
~ Erma Bombeck
Today's patience can transform yesterday's discouragements into tomorrow's discoveries. Today's purposes can turn yesterday's defeats into tomorrow's determination.
~ William Arthur Ward
Business is a sprint until you find an opportunity, then it's the patience of a marathon runner.
~ Robert Herjavec
It is commonly said that revenge is sweet, but to a calm and considerate mind, patience and forgiveness are sweeter.
~ Isaac Barrow
Patience is the absence of expectation.
~ Shinichi Suzuki
It is patience that reveals every grace to you, and it is through patience that the saints received all that was promised to them.
~ Pachomius the Great
The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.
~ Thucydides
The bigger the dam of patience, the worse the flood when the dam breaks.
~ Austin O'Malley
You may accept the inevitable with bitterness and resentment or with patience and grace. Mere acceptance is not sufficient.
~ Paul Brunton
He that can have patience can have what he will.
~ Benjamin Franklin
It takes a Mother's Patience, to bring a child up right, And her Courage and her Cheerfulness to make a dark day bright.
~ Helen Steiner Rice
Patience and perseverance are necessary in autosuggestion, as well as in everything else.
~ Émile Coué
Patience to faith is like the head to the body. The person who has no patience has not faith.
~ Ali ibn Abi Talib
Patience is eternal genius
~ Michelangelo
Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and strive for patience, if you can.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
Impatience makes us get ahead of ourselves, reaching out for something in the future and not really being content with where we are, here and now.
~ David Steindl-Rast
The disciples of a patient Saviour should be patient themselves.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Those who do not hope cannot wait; but if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
~ Charles Spurgeon
The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
~ Hermann Hesse
Everything comes if a man will only wait.
~ Benjamin Disraeli, Tancred
There's no advantage to hurrying through life." -Shikamaru Nara
~ Masashi Kishimoto
The Sage was asked to define good manners? to which he replied, To bear patiently the rude ones.
~ Solomon Ibn Gabirol