Famous Quotes about Patience (101 Quotations)

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

How poor are they that have not patience. What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.

I am patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it.

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.

I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.

I waited and waited, and when no message came, I knew it must be from you.

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

If I'm not back in five minutes… just wait longer!

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

If you are tempted to lose patience with your fellowman; stop and think how patient God has been with you.

If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big.

In all evils which admits a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes the time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might remove the cause.

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

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.

It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.

Let me look upward into the branches of the flowering oak and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well.

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,

Like farmers we need to learn that we cannot sow and reap the same day.