Patience Quotes

"Lack of forbearance in small matters confounds great plans."

Confucius

"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 Bruyère

"In time and with water, everything changes."

"All good things arrive unto them that wait – and don't die in the meantime."

Mark Twain

"Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait."

Nicholas Sparks

"Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th."

Julie Andrews

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

Thomas Edison

"Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."

Warren Buffett

"No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant."

Warren Buffett

"Wise to resolve, and patient to perform."

Homer

"Calmness is the cradle of power."

Josiah Gilbert Holland

"A calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence."

"The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power."

James Allen

"Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power."

James Allen

"Make haste slowly."

Augustus

"Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him."

Lord Chesterfield

"Hurry is the weakness of fools."

Baltasar Gracián

"The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter."

Paulo Coelho

"One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been."

Sophocles

"If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees."

Hal Borland

"Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence."

Hal Borland

"I am a slow walker, but I never walk back."

"Every noble work is at first impossible."

Thomas Carlyle

"A little patience and we shall see the reign of witches pass over."

Thomas Jefferson

"Victory belongs to the most persevering."