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Quotes About Patience

In the Bible, the race of life is never considered from the viewpoint of speed... We are to run it with patience.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
People say, "How do you write songs?" I say, "Patience." I may have a track that's hot, but no words. I'll just let it sit for years, because I know they're going to meet. They'll find it.
~ Ben Harper
I have no feelings of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my books have unlimited patience. They will wait for me till the end of my days.
~ Alberto Manguel
Inaction that results from indulgence is Procrastination. Inaction that results from intention is Patience.
~ Rory Vaden
There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
If you really want your films to say something that you hope is unique, then patience and stamina, thick skin and a kind of stupidity, a mule-like stupidity, is what you really need.
~ Terry Gilliam
Patience is the key to joy.
~ Rumi
Patience is about understanding the right moment for action and the right moment for stillness.
~ Alberto Villoldo
Wanting to win isn't enough. You have to go through a process to improve. That takes patience, perseverance, and intentionality.
~ John C. Maxwell
May you find in yourself enough patience to endure and enough simplicity to have faith.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Unselfishness is more paying, only people have not the patience to practice it.
~ Swami Vivekananda
A life of rest and peace in God is good; a life of pain lived in patience is still better; but to have peace in a life of pain is best of all.
~ Meister Eckhart
The growth stock theory of investing requires patience, but is less stressful than trading, generally has less risk, and reduces brokerage commissions and income taxes.
~ Thomas Rowe Price, Jr.
Courage, energy and patience are the virtues which appeal to my heart.
~ Fritz Kreisler
He who was living is now dead We who were living are now dying With a little patience.
~ T. S. Eliot
Every hero is a Samson. The strong man succumbs to the intrigues of the weak and the many; and if in the end he loses all patience he crushes both them and himself.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Learn a little patience. You never know what might be around the corner.
~ Chris d'Lacey, The Fire Within
Patience is, in and of itself, a great challenge and it often holds the key to breaking through a seeming impasse.
~ Daisaku Ikeda
It's true what they say about patience being a virtue; it just happens to be a virtue that I choose not to pursue.
~ Chelsea Handler
What is so certain of victory as patience?
~ Selma Lagerlöf
If we cut speed and relax with what's going on in our life right now, kindness and patience will naturally come about.
~ Sakyong Mipham
Patience is a particular requirement. Without it, you can destroy in an hour what it might take you weeks to repair.
~ Charlie W Shedd
Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim. Have patience and endure; this unhappiness will one day be beneficial.
~ Ovid
Patient waiting is often the highest way of doing God's will.
~ Jeremy Collier