Patience Quotes

Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait...The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons simply dont count.

Robert Anthony

Those speak foolishly who ascribe their anger or their impatience to such as offend them or to tribulation. Tribulation does not make people impatient, but proves that they are impatient. So everyone may learn from tribulation how his heart is constituted.

Martin Luther King Jr.

everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait . . . there is nothing stronger than these two: patience and time, they will do it all.

Leo Tolstoy

Patience was not my strong point.

Lauren Bacall

Because I'm the author of my screenplays I know what I'm looking for. It's true that I can be stubborn in demanding that I get what I want, but it's also a question of working with patience and love.

Michael Haneke

To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.

Samuel Johnson

Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience - I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed.

Cee Lo Green

Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been obliged to listen to and patiently to bear.

Peter Stuyvesant

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

Soren Kierkegaard

And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources, had trained me with skill and patience, and had shown me nothing but forbearance and charity when I failed in trust.

Simon Raven

Patience is passion tamed.

Lyman Abbott

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

Herman Hesse

My advice to someone to follow in my footsteps is to have patience. I've been doing this for twelve years.

Christina Milian

Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience.

Thomas Perry

If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives.

Marquise De SeVigne

Patience in the present, faith in the future, and joy in the doing

George Perera

The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.

Johann von Goethe

Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own.

Arnold Bennett

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will be powerless to vex your mind.

Leonardo DaVinci

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

Charlie Chaplin