Quotes

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in one ahead.
-Bill McGlashen

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
-Franklin P. Jones

Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.
-Rita Mae Brown

Patience is the companion of wisdom.
-St. Augustine

Patience is also a form of action.
-Auguste Rodin

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.
-Thomas Hardy

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

Patience is a virtue.
-Proverb

Patience is the art of hoping.
-Vauvenargues, Marquis de

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

Our patience will achieve more than our force.
-Edmund Burke

There was a time when Patience ceased to be a virtue. It was long ago.
-Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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

Patience, A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.
-Ambrose Bierce

Adopt the pace of nature,her secret is patience.
-Ralph Waldo

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

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
-George Savile

Patience and fortitude conquer all things.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.
-Michel de Montaigne

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

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

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.
-Cato the Elder

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.
-Kahlil Gibran

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Patience and shuffle the cards.
-Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life.
-Chinese Proverb

Patience makes a women beautiful in middle age.
-Elliot Paul

An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains.
-Dutch Proverb

Patience and diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
-William Penn

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.
-Titus Maccius Plautus

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
-Helen Keller

Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.
-George-Louis de Buffon

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
-John Quincy Adams

Nature, time, and patience are the three great physicians.
-Proverb

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
-John Updike

Sin is the dare of God's justice, the rape of His mercy, the jeer of His patience, the slight of His power, and the contempt of His love.
-John Bunyan

Clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.
-Bible

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

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

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
-Margaret Thatcher

You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-Stanislaw J. Lec