Patience Quotations

Brian Adams
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.

Mark Twain
All good things arrive unto them that wait--and don't die in the meantime.

Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC)
Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

 

Dutch Proverb
A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.

Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Elizabeth Taylor (1932 - ), "A Wreath of Roses"

It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924)
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.

George Jackson (1941 - 1971)
Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.

Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.

Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)

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 then be powerless to vex your mind.

Margaret Thatcher (1925 - ), in Observer April 4, 1989
I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

Richard Rybolt
There will be a time when loud-mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self destruct. It never fails.

Saint Augustine (354 AD - 430 AD)
Patience is the companion of wisdom.

Saint Francis de Sales (1567 - 1622)

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering you own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew.

Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966), "Unkempt Thoughts"
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.

Titus Maccius Plautus (254 BC - 184 BC), Rudens
Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees.