Patience Quotes

"Perseverance, secret of all triumphs."

Victor Hugo

"By perseverance the snail reached the ark."

"Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs."

Malcolm Forbes

"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination."

Tommy Lasorda

"Little strokes fell great oaks."

"Waiting is still an occupation. It's having nothing to wait for that is terrible."

Cesare Pavese

"Waiting for a train to go or a bus to come, or a plane to go or the mail to come... Everyone is just waiting."

Dr. Seuss

"Instant gratification takes too long."

Carrie Fisher

"Don't take rest after your first victory because if you fail in second, more lips are waiting to say that your first victory was just luck."

"Slowly, slowly, O mind, everything happens at its own pace. The gardener may water with a hundred buckets, but the fruit arrives only in its season."

Kabir

"Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm."

Publilius Syrus

"Endure, and preserve yourselves for better things."

Virgil

"Perhaps someday it will be pleasant to remember even this."

Virgil

"Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you."

Ovid

"Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence."

Ovid

"Never give in—never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense."

"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'"

Mary Anne Radmacher

"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."

Vincent van Gogh

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out."

Robert Collier

"It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience."

Julius Caesar

"To bear trials with a calm mind robs misfortune of its strength and burden."

Seneca

"It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable."

Seneca

"No man is free who is not master of himself."

"Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity."

Thomas Hardy