patience
Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘patience’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.” -Ralph Marston
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“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.” -Mahatma Gandhi
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“All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.” -Thomas Fuller
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“I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.” -Jesse Jackson
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“Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.” -John Ruskin
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“Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it’s cowardice.” -George Jackson
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“Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.” -Francis Bacon
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“Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.” -Rudyard Kipling
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“As for goals, I don’t set myself those anymore. I’m not one of these ‘I must have achieved this and that by next year’ kind of writers. I take things as they come and find that patience and persistence tend to win out in the end.” -Paul Kane
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“Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.” -William Penn
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“There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.” -Sivananda
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“The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another’s defects, and the bearing of one another’s burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.” -Lawrence G. Lovasik
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“Patience is the support of weakness impatience the ruin of strength.” -Charles Caleb Colton
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“If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.” -Isaac Newton
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“All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.” -Thomas a Kempis
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“Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.” -Laurence J. Peter
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“Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.” -Joseph Addison
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“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.” -Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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“For anything worth having one must pay the price and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice – no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.” -John Burroughs
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“Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.” -Phillips Brooks
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“Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.” -Saint Francis de Sales
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“A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.” -George Savile
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“The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.” -Solomon Ibn Gabirol
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“I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.” -Edith Sitwell
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“It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.” -Julius Caesar
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“Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.” -Saadi
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“Our patience will achieve more than our force.” -Edmund Burke
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“Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.” -Heraclitus
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“I’m extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.” -Margaret Thatcher
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“Endurance is patience concentrated.” -Thomas Carlyle
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“Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.” -Soren Kierkegaard
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“The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.” -Arnold H. Glasow
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“Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.” -Carl Jung
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“Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.” -Robert H. Schuller
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“Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.” -Napoleon Hill
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“We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.” -Helen Keller
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“The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.” -George Washington
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