Top 71 Best Patience Quotes
#1. Best to introduce yourself to patience now, so that it might find you when you call upon it later.
Tahereh Mafi
#2. I believe that horses bring out the best in us. They judge us not by how we look, what we're wearing or how powerful or rich we are, they judge us in terms of sensitivity, consistency, and patience. They demand standards of behavior and levels of kindness that we, as humans, then strive to maintain.
Clare Balding
#3. We must arm ourselves with patience and wisdom and listen to the poor what they want. This is the best way to avoid the trap of ignorance, ideology and inertia on our side.
Abhijit V. Banerjee
#4. Most of all, I am thankful for Lily, who, since she entered my life, has taught me everything I know about patience and kindness and meeting adversity with quiet dignity and grace. No one makes me laugh harder, or want to hug them tighter. You have truly lived up to the promise of man's best friend.
Steven Rowley
#5. A life of rest and peace in God is good; a life of pain lived in patience is still better; but to have peace in a life of pain is best of all.
Meister Eckhart
#6. Time is the best of critics; and patience the best of teachers.
Frederic Chopin
#7. I think patience is the best thing to try to embrace.
Alessia Cara
#8. Happiness isn't about pretending there's no pain. It's about accepting the pain as a part of healing and doing your best to nurse your own wounds with love and patience.
Vironika Tugaleva
#9. We best learn patience by practicing it.
Jim Elliot
#10. It takes patience to become the best runner you can be. Top athletes realize that running is a long-term sport. It is set up for people who value delayed gratification and who like hard-earned success.
Anthony Famiglietti
#11. Even the best inborn potentialities for achievement do not render unnecessary patient and persistent practice.
Ralph Alfred Habas
#12. The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
Hermann Hesse
#13. All the reasons you fell in love are still there, but perhaps buried under worries and responsibility. Find them again, then hang in there. Truly, the best is yet to come.
Laurie Paige
#14. I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.
John Milton
#15. And when all's said and done, the final comment will be (from me at least) so what? I'll live with my neuroses. I'll try to develop patience, with my handicapped personality. But I prefer to live with my neuroses and try to make the best of them.
Patricia Highsmith
#16. The best is always worth waiting for. And once you taste it, no other taste will do.
T.F. Hodge
#17. On my best days, I fancy myself a combination of Dad's persistence/patience and Mom's toughness/skepticism.
David Einhorn
#18. Sometimes you have to go through the worst, to get to the best. Keep moving forward. Be patient.
Karen Salmansohn
#19. Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care.
Horace Mann
#20. Remember, everyone you meet is really trying to do the best they can. No one woke up today and intentionally decided to be mean, difficult, or unreasonable - including you.
John Bruna
#21. A friend is not the shadow that mimics you, but the one who casts all shadows away.
Shannon L. Alder
#23. Making the absolute best of ourselves is not an easy task. It is a pleasurable pursuit ... but it requires patience, persistence, and perseverance.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#24. The best thing Jay-Z ever taught me was patience.
Rita Ora
#25. 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.
Moliere
#26. Mia," Kim said, an edge of warning in her voice signaling the end of her patience. "You're starting to act like one of those girls. Do you need to get me a gun?
Gayle Forman
#27. Joy and patience are far above our strength ... We must persevere in prayer that he may not permit our hearts to faint ... Prayer and perseverance are necessary in our daily conflicts. The best remedy to the weariness is diligence in prayer.
John Calvin
#29. I think my best teacher and my best study was theater in general. It taught me a lot of patience and a lot of hard work, and I think that theater teaches you that you've got to know your stuff because you only get one chance.
Chelsea Kane
#30. My dad said to me, 'Work hard and be patient.' It was the best advice he ever gave me. You have to put the hours in.
Simon Cowell
#31. Healing blessings come in many ways, each suited to our individual needs, as known to Him who loves us best. Sometimes a 'healing' cures our illness or lifts our burden. But sometimes we are 'healed' by being given strength or understanding or patience to bear the burdens placed upon us.
Dallin H. Oaks
#32. Sometimes you just need to know when a fight is best saved for another day when the odds are more in your favour.
A.J. Darkholme
#33. Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake.
Voltaire
#34. Life is like the flappy bird game. There's no pause nor another chance to live after dying and there could be endless obstacles. After all, it is just a matter of patience and perseverance to get a higher score.
Kasey Collin P. Dumdum
#35. Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.
Idries Shah
#36. It's a curious thing. I suppose most people think of artists as impatient but I don't know of any first-rate artist who hasn't manifested in his career an appalling patience, a willingness to wait and to do his best now in the expectation that next year he will do better.
Mark Van Doren
#37. The best joke-tellers are those who have the patience to wait for conversation to come around to the point where the jokes in their repertoire have application.
Joseph Epstein
#38. Most times, the worst of situations can become a compass to the best of situations
Ikechukwu Izuakor
#39. Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.
Plautus
#40. You develop patience that enables you to wait gracefully and gratefully until the best arrives because you know it will.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#41. Physician, heal thyself: then wilt thou also heal thy patient. Let it be his best cure to see with his eyes him who maketh himself whole.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#42. It's important to cultivate a tolerance and patience with uncomfortable feelings. It's best to feel them.
Jewel
#43. Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child ... Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they have no patience with pretence.
Orson Scott Card
#44. When one does a thing, it appears good, otherwise one would not write it. Only later comes reflection, and one discards or accepts the thing. Time is the best censor, and patience a most excellent teacher.
Frederic Chopin
#45. Time has its own secrets, so it is best to wait upon it untill it tells.
Morgan Chabane
#47. A woman may get to love by degrees - the best fire does not flare up the soonest.
George Eliot
#48. One of the best ways to support the development of patience is to cultivate happiness with yourself.
Allan Lokos
#49. Some people can never understand that you have to wait, even for the best of things, until the right time comes.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#50. Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
Moliere
#51. Culturally, one of the best arguments we can make is, wait and see.
Os Guinness
#52. A good cause is often injured more by ill-timed efforts of its friends than by the arguments of its enemies. Persuasion, perseverance and patience are the best advocates on questions depending on the will of others.
Thomas Jefferson
#53. punishment had not been spared--with best results in patience and purification
George MacDonald
#54. If you can cultivate the right attitude, your enemies are your best spiritual teachers because their presence provides you with the opportunity to enhance and develop tolerance, patience and understanding.
Dalai Lama XIV
#55. The best thing about my family is my wife. She is a great first lady. I know that sounds not very objective, but that's how I feel. And she's also patient. Putting up with me requires a lot of patience.
George W. Bush
#56. The best fire doesna flare up the soonest.
George Eliot
#57. I shall give you a little prophecy, Locke Lamora, as best as I have seen it.
'Three things you must take up and three things you must lose before you die: a key, a crown, a child.' Patience pushed her hood up over her head. 'You will die when a silver rain falls.
Scott Lynch
#58. Did we do our best to meet our priorities for that day, based on the given circumstances and unexpected life events? Today agility and fluidity are truly the key elements required - along with patience, compassion, forgiveness, and gentle discipline. Maryrose Solis, founder, March 4ward
Anonymous
#59. After Mengistu consolidated his power in 1978, his personality gradually began to change. His ability to listen and his patience faded away. We could now see these qualities were pretences only; he had been putting on his best behavior in his bid for support.
Mengistu Haile Mariam
#60. I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.
Jesse Jackson
#61. We must judge the tree by its fruit. The best fruits of the religious experience are the best things history has to offer. The highest flights of charity, devotion, trust, patience, and bravery to which the wings of human nature have spread themselves, have all been flown for religious ideals.
William James
#62. People who believe in excellence are full of patience, they are passionate of what they do and they don't cut corners. They invest their time in pursuit of being the best in everything they do.
Euginia Herlihy
#63. Friendship hath the skill and observation of the best physician, the diligence and vigilance of the best nurse, and the tenderness and patience of the best mother.
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl Of Clarendon
#64. To have a restful or peaceful life in God is good; to bear a life of pain in patience is better; but to have peace in the midst of pain is the best of all.
Bernard Of Clairvaux
#65. Enemies provide us some of the best opportunities to practice patience, tolerance, and compassion.
Dalai Lama XIV
#67. Parenthood offers many lessons in patience and sacrifice. But ultimately, it is a lesson in humility. The very best thing about your life is a short stage in someone else's story.
Michael Gerson
#68. I've seen fish hooked who keep more patience in their worst gill than some of you have in your best moods. If you were a sandwich at McDonalds, they'd call you the McGrump.
Buddy Wakefield
#69. I need a close contact to the client, whoever it is, and a commitment of the client to go out and do a process together. I want to do the best for him. I need his respect and his patience. I want to work with a sophisticated person who's interested in a good building and not in my name.
Peter Zumthor
#70. Lay a golden egg.
After you built a nest,
You wait for a leg.
And you land next.
Now you hope and pray.
Expect for the best.
Go on with no delay.
Get it right at last.
Ana Claudia Antunes
#71. The best penance is to have patience with the sorrows God permits. A very good penance is to dedicate oneself to fulfill the duties of everyday with exactitude and to study and work with all our strength.
Peter Damian