Patience Quotes

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?

Paul Sweeney

True enough, nature has endowed me with a fair measure of patience and composure, yet I should be lying if I told you that, having seen the reporter off on his way to make his deadline, I fell peacefully asleep.

Leon Jouhaux

I haven't been given many things, but I've been given ample, limitless patience.

Lincoln Diaz-Balart

Patience makes lighter What sorrow may not heal.

Horace, Odes, 15

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John Dryden, Absalom and Achitop

As a young boy, I read 'Cheaper by the Dozen' and immediately became neurotic about my use of time. It taxed me severely, but only for the next 50 years. But I think it also allowed me to discipline myself to sit in the chair and be a writer, where one of the most needed qualities is patience.

Ridley Pearson

We must remember balance and moderation. Patience can be spiritually enriching and virtuous but when taken in excess, it turns to procrastination, the poison of inaction.

Steve Maraboli

Everything is out there if you know how to find it, and have the patience. I don't and haven't, but that's my problem.

Tom Holt

To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success.

Joseph De Maistre

In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair-mindedness, and gentleness with what is strange.

Friedrich Nietzsche

If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.

Sir Isaac Newton

Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that is patience. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

Leo Tolstoy

In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.

W. B. Prescott

Patience means self-suffering.

Mahatma Gandhi

I've always been a person with patience, and I don't like to force things.

Harry Shum, Jr.

I've said my patience is not infinite.

Darrell Issa

When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so.

Beverly Cleary

With close-lipped Patience for our only friend, Sad Patience, too near neighbor to Despair.

Matthew Arnold

Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; Hold fast; Hold out. Patience is genius.

GeorgesLouis Leclerc Buffon

If I could have one prayer answered, I would pray for patience. I move so fast sometimes. I try to slow down.

Debra Winger