Patience Quotes

All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.

Thomas Fulle

You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.

Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

Leo Tolstoy

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

Horace Bushnell

Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

Unknown

When clouds form in the skies we know that rain will follow but we must not wait for it. Nothing will be achieved by attempting to interfere with the future before the time is ripe. Patience is needed.

I Ching

There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise, it is because of indolence that they do not return. Yet perhaps there is only one major sin: impatience. Because of impatience they were expelled, because of impatience they do not return.

Franz Kafka

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.

Victor Hugo

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Aristotle

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Franklin P. Jones

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Napolean Hill

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.

Baltasar Gracian

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.

Leonardo da Vinci

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Benjamin Franklin

Have patience awhile slanders are not long - Lived. Truth is the child of time erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

Immanuel Kant

There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring Impatience and Laziness.

Franz Kafka

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

Dutch Prove

The greatest power is often simple patience.

E. Joseph Crossman

Patience is the key to paradise.

Turkish Prove

Infinite patience brings immediate results.

Wayne W Dye

Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

Author Unknown

Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.

George - Louis Leclerc de Buffon

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long - Lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

Immanuel Kant

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.

Saint Francis de Sales

There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.

Franz Kafka

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elde

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

Jean de La Fontaine

Patience and perserverence have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

John Quincy Adams

For want of self - Restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their own cross - Grained ungentleness; whilst others, it may be much less gifted, make their way and achieve success by simple patience, equanimity, and self - Control.

Smiles

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

C. S. Robinson

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.

Victor Hugo

A great preservative against angry and mutinous thoughts, and all impatience and quarreling, is to have some great business and interest in your mind, which, like a sponge shall suck up your attention and keep you from brooding over what displeases you.

Joseph Rickaby

The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this.

Real Live Preacher, reallivepreacher. com weblog, September 4, 2003

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

Hyman Rickove

Patience is often merely the guise of Cowardice.

C. Lee Hopkin