Patience Quotes

Patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue. (Ambrose Bierce)
Patience and time do more than strength or passion. View quote
Jean de La Fontaine
Patience is the art of hoping. View quote
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues
Patience is the companion of wisdom. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
Time is still the best critic, and patience the best teacher. View quote
Frédéric Chopin
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. View quote
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
He that has patience may compass anything. View quote
François Rabelais
Patience will achieve more than force. View quote
Edmund Burke
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. View quote
Joseph Addison
How long now, Catiline, will you abuse our patience. View quote
Cicero
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world. (Harriet Tubman)
Humility is attentive patience. View quote
Simone Weil
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience. View quote
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty. View quote
John Ruskin
It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness. View quote
George Santayana
A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else. View quote
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting. View quote
Elizabeth Taylor
The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don't resent them, you are not fit to live. View quote
Bernard Mandeville
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. View quote
Carl Jung
Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts. View quote
James Russell Lowell
What does your sorrow do while you sleep? -It's awake and waiting. And when it loses patience, it wakes me up. (Ivo Andrić)
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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. View quote
Victor Hugo
Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it. View quote
Eknath Easwaran
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. View quote
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