Patience Quotes

"Patience is not simply the ability to wait—it’s how we behave while we’re waiting."

- Joyce Meyer

"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time."

- Leo Tolstoy

"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life."

- Chinese Proverb

"Patience is the companion of wisdom."

- Saint Augustine

"With patience, nothing is impossible."

- Unknown

"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy."

- Saadi

"Genius is eternal patience."

- Michelangelo

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

- John Quincy Adams

"A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else."

- George Savile

"Patience is the key to paradise."

- Turkish Proverb

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

- Elizabeth Taylor

"The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others."

- Erik Erikson

"Patience is the art of hoping."

- Luc de Clapiers

"To lose patience is to lose the battle."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Patience is a conquering virtue."

- Geoffrey Chaucer

"If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees."

- Hal Borland

"Patience and diligence, like faith, remove mountains."

- William Penn

"Patience attracts happiness; it brings near that which is far."

- Swahili Proverb

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

- Franklin P. Jones

"Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson."

- Elon Musk

"The strongest of all warriors are these two—time and patience."

- Leo Tolstoy

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."

- Confucius

"Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there someday."

- A.A. Milne

"Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty."

- John Ruskin

"Have patience with all things, but first of all with yourself."

- Saint Francis de Sales

"All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it."

- Thomas à Kempis

"Patience is not about waiting, but the ability to keep a good attitude while working hard for what you believe in."

- Unknown

"Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance."

- Samuel Johnson

"Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown."

- Soren Kierkegaard

"Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears."

- Barbara Johnson

"We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world."

- Helen Keller

"A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation."

- Molière

"The secret of patience is to do something else in the meantime."

- Croft M. Pentz

"Patience is the best remedy for every trouble."

- Plautus

"He that can have patience can have what he will."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Patience is the ability to let your light shine after your fuse has blown."

- Bob Levey

"Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind."

- David G. Allen

"Have patience. Go where you must go, and hope."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Patience and fortitude conquer all things."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Patience is the road to wisdom."

- Kao Kalia Yang

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

- Dutch Proverb

"Patience is the companion of strength."

- Unknown

"He who has patience will achieve what he desires."

- Turkish Proverb

"Sometimes things aren’t clear right away. That’s where you need to be patient and persevere and see where things lead."

- Mary Pierce