“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.”      — Brian Adams

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

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

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

“It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.”   — Elizabeth Taylor (1932 - ), "A Wreath of Roses"

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

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

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

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

“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 (1452 - 1519)

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

“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.”  — Richard Rybolt

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

“Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew.”                                                        — Saint Francis de Sales (1567 - 1622)

“Therefore be patient, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, waiting patiently for it until it received the early and latter rain. You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand. Do not grumble against one another, brethren, lest you be condemned. Behold, the Judge is standing at the door! My brethren, take the prophets, who spoke in the name of the Lord, as an example of suffering and patience. Indeed we count them blessed who endure. You have heard of the perseverance of Job and seen the end intended by the Lord -- that the Lord is very compassionate and merciful.”  — James 5:7-11  KJV

“Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.” —Hebrews 12:1, 2  (KJV)

 

Quotes About Patience