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Quotes About Patience

The greatest art is to sit, and wait, and let it come.
~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi
And if you were a spirit, and time did not bind you, and patience and love were all you knew, then there you would wait for someone to return, and the story to unfold.
~ Mark Helprin
Practice patience; it is the essence of praise. Have patience, for that is true worship. No other worship is worth as much. Have patience; patience is the key to all relief.
~ Rumi
If, like the prophet Noah, you have patience in the distress of the flood, Calamity turns aside, and the desire of a thousand years comes forth.
~ Hafez
I don't really watch too many movies. I don't have the patience usually to watch one, one and a half or two hours in a row.
~ Magnus Carlsen
Cease to be a disobedient child in the school of experience, and begin to learn, with humility and patience, the lessons that are set for your ultimate perfection.
~ James Allen
Patience is idling your motor when you feel like stripping a gear.
~ Bill Gothard
There is nothing which so certifies the genuineness of a man's faith as his patience and his patient endurance, his keeping on steadily in spite of everything.
~ Martyn Lloyd-Jones
The more patient we are, the more understanding we become.
~ William Arthur Ward
Perhaps then, some day far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
There is magic in patience, you know.
~ Zedd
No. I don't have the patience, and I'm not very tactful. People say I can be frightening.
~ Zaha Hadid
As a healer, the first thing to tell every patient is to breathe deeply. Shallow breathing means no endurance, no patience.
~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi
Chance throws peculiar conditions in everyone's way. If we apply intelligence, patience and special vision, we are rewarded with new creative breakthroughs.
~ Walter Bradford Cannon
A leaf that is destined to grow large is full of grooves and wrinkles at the start. Now if one has no patience and wants it smooth offhand like a willow leaf, there is trouble ahead.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Pain is hard to bear.... But with patience, day by day, Even this shall pass away.
~ Theodore Tilton
Even if I should never see a native converted, God may design by my patience and continuance in the Word to encourage future missionaries.
~ Henry Martyn
Suffering can make saints of people as they learn patience, long-suffering and self-mastery.
~ Spencer W. Kimball
Art thou in the darkness? Mind it not, for if thou dost it will feed thee more. But stand still, and act not, and wait in patience, till light arises out of darkness and leads thee.
~ James Nayler
He who suffers in patience, surfers less and saves his soul. He who suffers impatiently, suffers more and loses his soul.
~ Alphonsus Liguori
The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion, patience, tolerance, humility, and forgiveness.
~ Dalai Lama
Patience is a virtue. Keep doing what you want to do and eventually things will happen.
~ Arian Foster
There is no love of God without patience, and no patience without lowliness and sweetness of spirit.
~ John Wesley
Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold.
~ Leonardo da Vinci