Patience Quotes

The lord is wonderfully good to those who wait for him and seek him.N.B.: From this quote is derived the proverb, Good things come to those who wait.

Bible, Lamentations 3:25

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.

Arnold H. Glasow

You need not even listen, simply wait, just learn to become quiet, and still, and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked.

Franz Kafka

There are times when God asks nothing of his children except silence, patience and tears.

C. S. Robinson

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

Charles Caleb Colton

A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.

William Faulkner

Let this be understood, then, at starting; that the patient conquest of difficulties which rise in the regular and legitimate channels of business and enterprise is not only essential in securing the success which you seek but it is essential to that preparation of your mind, requisite for the enjoyment of your successes, and for retaining them when gained. So, day by day, and week by week; so month after month, and year after year, work on, and in that process gain strength and symmetry, and nerve and knowledge, that when success, patiently and bravely worked for, shall come, it may find you prepared to receive it and keep it,

Josiah Gilbert Holland

Work and wait, work and wait is what God says to us in creation.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

Patience is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not.

George Granville

Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.

Lord Chesterfield

So it's been a slow process and it's taken some patience. That's why patients are called patients I think - patience is required.

Bowie Kuhn