Patience Quotes

Jenny replied to this with a bitterness which might have surprized a judicious person, who had observed the tranquillity with which she bore all the affronts to her chastity; but her patience was perhaps tired out, for this is a virtue which is very apt to be fatigued by exercise.

Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

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

Immanuel Kant

Use disappointments as material for patience.

Unknown

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

John Quincy Adams

I think that wherever your journey takes you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience - - And laughter.

Susan M. Watkins

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

Joseph Addison

To bemoan the messiness of politics is not just a folly it betrays a dangerous impatience with basic realities. It is like becoming disturbed that people do not fall in love sensibly - - And so deciding to computerize the problem.

Theodore Roszak

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

Author Unknown

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

Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.

Peter Marshall

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

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

Franz Kafka

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

Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.

George - Louis Leclerc de Buffon

Through patience a ruler can be persuaded, and a gentle tongue can break a bone.

Proverbs 25: 15

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

Franz Kafka

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

Whoever is out of patience is out of possession of his soul. Men must not turn into bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Elizabeth Taylor, "A Wreath of Roses".

Infinite patience brings immediate results.

Wayne W Dye

Patience is the key to content.

Mahomet

All human power is a compound of time and patience.

Honore de Balzac

All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.

Thomas Fulle

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

C. S. Robinson

The road to success leads through the valley of humility, and the path is up the ladder of patience and across the wide barren plains of perseverance. As yet, no short cut has ever been discovered.

Joseph J. Lam

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

Dutch Prove

Purity, patience, and preserverance are the three essentials to success, and above all love.

Swami Vivekananda

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus, Rudens

To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.

Samuel Johnson

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 the key to paradise.

Turkish Prove

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elde

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

William Shakespeare

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

Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".

Patience is often merely the guise of Cowardice.

C. Lee Hopkin

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Aristotle