Patience Quotes

"Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength."

Charles Caleb Colton

"Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown."

Søren Kierkegaard

"The secret of patience is to do something else in the meantime."

Croft M. Pentz

"With love and patience, nothing is impossible."

Daisaku Ikeda

"Patience is the art of hoping."

Marquis de Vauvenargues

"Patience is a conquering virtue."

Geoffrey Chaucer

"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves."

Rainer Maria Rilke

"All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope."

Alexandre Dumas

"Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears."

Barbara Johnson

"A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else."

George Savile

"Endurance is patience concentrated."

Thomas Carlyle

"Patience is the greatest of all virtues."

Cato the Elder

"Slow and steady wins the race."

Aesop

"Patience and time do more than strength or passion."

Jean de La Fontaine

"Patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue."

Ambrose Bierce

"Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in the one ahead."

Bill McGlashen

"The greatest power is often simple patience."

E. Joseph Cossman

"No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen."

"Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All things pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for."

Teresa of Ávila

"Purity, patience, and perseverance are the three essentials to success and, above all, love."

"Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is concentrated strength."

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

"Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold."

"Impatience never commanded success."

Edwin H. Chapin

"Hope is patience with the lamp lit."

Tertullian

"Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time."

Pericles