Top 100 Patience I Quotes
#2. If you show patience
If you show patience, I'll rid you of this virtue.
If you fall asleep, I'll rub the sleep from your eyes.
If you become a mountain, I'll melt you in fire.
And if you become an ocean, I'll drink all your water.
Rumi
#4. I love what I know about passion, I love what I know about mercy, I love what I know about patience, I love what I know about soul, and I know you.
Jason Molina
#5. Without patience I could never have succeeded.
Jane Goodall
#6. I've accrued a kind of patience, I believe, loosely like change.
Lorrie Moore
#7. Movies require a lot of patience. I like instant results. If I have done something that's not funny at all, the audience will let me know in two seconds. With the movie, I will have to wait nine months to know if I was that bad.
Vir Das
#8. I'm not gonna tell her!" I shouted back, beginning to lose patience with Rosie. I forgave myself for losing patience. I figured that happened when you got shot at. I'd never been shot at, but I was always a quick learner.
Kristen Ashley
#9. People say, "How do you write songs?" I say, "Patience." I may have a track that's hot, but no words. I'll just let it sit for years, because I know they're going to meet. They'll find it.
Ben Harper
#10. I love the man that is modestly valiant; that stirs not till he most needs, and then to purpose. A continued patience I commend not.
Owen Feltham
#11. The key to sauces is having patience. I'm not a patient woman, but I learned with sauces that you have to get everything on a slow roll and layer the flavors. That's where you get robust tastes: it starts one way and ends another.
Kelis
#12. 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
#13. I have never been much at nonverbal communication. Additionally, I don't have much of an attention span, and what I lack in patience I make up for in ambivalence and an inability to sleep.
Carrie Fisher
#14. Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience - I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed.
CeeLo Green
#15. Coaching takes patience. I'm more enthused when teaching players who want it versus when I have to.
Kevin Garnett
#16. I love you boys, but not one of you has any patience. I'm not sure how any of you will survive nine month pregnancies.
Ella Fox
#17. It's amazing. My kids have grown me in ways I never knew possible. The patience I've received and the love I get from them is just amazing.
Candace Cameron Bure
#18. If I could have one prayer answered, I would pray for patience. I move so fast sometimes. I try to slow down.
Debra Winger
#19. I'll wait for you as long as it takes, Evan," he says.
"I'll test your patience," I warn, my smile beginning to show itself again.
"You already do.
Lilly Black
#20. You picked a man who can read tax code and date a celibate for two years. That's some serious patience. I have zero doubt in my ability to wait you out. I have zero doubt that you're meant to be my girl.
Joshilyn Jackson
#21. I think we can all use a little more patience. I get a little impatient sometimes and I wish I didn't. I really need to be more patient.
Ryan Reynolds
#22. Everything is out there if you know how to find it, and have the patience. I don't and haven't, but that's my problem.
Tom Holt
#23. The thing about patience, I mean real patience, is that it is most needed when there is something you really want to see happen. That's patience.
Art Hochberg
#24. Patience. I colored patience gray, hung over with black clouds. I colored hope yellow, just like the sun we could see for a few short morning hours. Too soon the sun rose high in the sky & disappeared from view, leaving us bereft and staring at blue.
V.C. Andrews
#25. What merit there is in my thinking is derived from two peculiarities: (1) My inability to be familiar with anything. I simply can't take things for granted. (2) My endless patience. I assume that the only way to find an answer is to hang on long enough and keep groping.
Eric Hoffer
#27. When God passed out patience, I was too impatient to wait in line.
Christine Wenger
#28. But first I had to get through the ironing. It took a lot of patience. I had none. It took forever, and then I had to press the whole shirt again to get out the creases I'd pressed into it.
Jennifer Echols
#29. I think God's really blessed me with patience. I'm good with a lot of things going on at once.
Niki Taylor
#30. Writing novels is largely about endurance and patience. I take a lot of breaks, hit walls, and go do something else while I think things through. But I do it every day, and I try to treat it as a job, something that is not dictated by whimsy or muses.
Adam Mansbach
#31. Al Unser Sr. was one of the smartest drivers I've ever raced against. And I often said, I wish I could've had some of his patience. I know it would have worked for me many times.
Mario Andretti
#32. I admire these phone hackers. I think they have a lot of patience. I can't even be bothered to check my OWN voicemails.
Andrew Lawrence
#33. Listen, I was the first black manager in baseball and there was incredible pressure. I don't blame anyone else. I was too tough ... I lack patience. I probably got on guys a little too hard, with the wrong tone of voice.
Frank Robinson
#34. It was a great test of my ability to work with ... watercolors. And it was also a test of my patience; I needed to put myself in a completely disciplined position ... I couldn't make mistakes.
Liu Dan
#35. Your ignorance keeps dismembering every piece of patience I have left.
Andrea Gibson
#36. My advice to someone to follow in my footsteps is to have patience. I've been doing this for twelve years.
Christina Milian
#37. I try not to set myself up as different or as a celebrity or special. I have a husband that can get on my nerves. I have kids that test my patience. I've got a cat I can't keep off the sofa. It's real. On a bad day, I'm reading 'Acts of Faith.'
Iyanla Vanzant
#38. I don't want to be in some relationship that's just about trading apologies when things get hard. Doing that won't make it all OK, you know? So, no, I don't forgive you. But I fucking accept you, including all the shit you do that tests my patience. Because I love you.
Liora Blake
#39. You've got my come drying between your thighs right fucking now. And bruises in the shape of my fingers on your body. You. Are. Mine. And there's nothing you can say or do to change that. Don't fucking test me, my bella, because I'm running out of patience.
Jessica Prince
#40. There's not a lot of room anymore for what I call 'made-up' drama. The drama comes from real places now - marriage takes work and focus, the kid stuff takes patience and commitment. And if you don't grow as people and as a couple, within all of that, then you've got some real drama.
Jeremy Sisto
#41. You were patient, but I worried that your very patience tempted Kevin to try it.
Lionel Shriver
#42. (Devon) "Cam - you're killing me," she quavered, pressing her head back into the pillow and praying for patience. Her heart was pounding.
"I'm loving you," he corrected in a hot whisper, then took her nipple deep into his mouth as his palm brushed over the damp lace covering her core.
Kaylea Cross
#43. If patience and gratitude had been she camels, it would have mattered little on which I rode.
Umar
#44. I would say I'm a boss who's learning, and I hope people have the patience for the fact that I'm learning along the way because that's a tough thing.
Sophia Amoruso
#45. I kept my head down and my breathing steady. No idea why. I totally felt like a sniper in the marines. Only I was pregnant. Other than that, and the fact that I couldn't snipe if they'd paid me to, I embodied all that a sniper should be. Stealth. Grace. The patience of a panther on the prowl.
Darynda Jones
#46. Alas, impatience is but another form of unhappiness. It is true, it is true. I have never met a happy impatient person.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#47. You may say 'Universe'. I say 'Existence'" he replied with infinite patience.
P.R. Ford
#48. Never boyfriends? You've NEVER been in LOVE?"
As I shake my head no, I look out the window, yearning to see Cole's sun-filled eyes again looking into mine.
"Don't worry," Tiger said. "Love isn't easy- and it happens on its own time. Just hang in there. He'll come around.
Giorge Leedy
#49. But while her world was soft and comfortable, offering everything I could ever want, it all came too easy. There was something to be said for patience and hard work.
Alyson Noel
#50. I should learn patience, it's a shame there's no time for that.
Maija Haavisto
#51. The only skills I have the patience to learn are those that have no real application in life.
John Calvin
#53. The patience that goes with the game, the little things that go along with the game, you have so much more time to think in golf than you do in football - you have to keep your thoughts positive. I'm not sure I've got that mastered.
John Elway
#54. I have so little patience with the whole Y.A. book thing. As far as I'm concerned, you either read books for children or you read books for adults.
Richard K. Morgan
#55. Patience is something I can't wait to have!
Todd Stocker
#56. I love to close my eyes a moment and think of the land outside, white under the mingled snow and moonlight--the heaps of stones by the roadside white--snow in the furrows. Mon Dieu! How quiet and how patient!
Katherine Mansfield
#57. I'm alive with love in my heart.. I'm grateful for each moment.. With a little patience and god's grace I know everything in my life will work out on its own time!
Nehali Lalwani
#59. Dear God, I pray for patience and I want it right now.
Oren Arnold
#60. Of course, people discovering true love works out badly for everyone, really. I mean, it's okay in the end- once everyone settles down and stops making a big fuss about it. But fairly near the beginning, there is a massive test of everyone's patience and love- a wedding.
Caitlin Moran
#61. Haydn snorts. "Only gullible, lovesick fools spout that mushy crap." Thank the stars that his tone is teasing, because I can sense Logan's patience waning.
"When you find the right girl, I'm so going to make you eat your words. And I'm going to thoroughly enjoy rubbing your nose in it.
Siobhan Davis
#62. Your guardian angel never, ever stops communicating with you.
I feel that at times they should be frustrated with us but they seem to have endless patience and they never ever give up on us.
Lorna Byrne
#63. One of the things I've been taught by Native American elders is the importance of patience, of waiting to do things when the time is right.
Joseph Bruchac
#64. I welcome the autumnal chill in the air. There is a stimulation about it. Life moves to a different rhythm. There is a sense of change in the atmosphere and change is good inasmuch as it prevents stagnation. We should grow weary of a summer that never ended.
Patience Strong
#65. She surprised him by agreeing. "Yes, I was simply curious, and no, I would never criticize you in front of your followers. Do you have the patience to endure one more question, husband?"
"What is it?"
"When do you suppose you'll leave me behind?
Julie Garwood
#66. I don't know if I have the patience and I don't have a trainers license but I will help out. Whether I want to do that full time, I doubt it.
Joe Calzaghe
#67. Everyone likes ice cream," he said, white with rage. The mask of patience was slipping, and I don't know how I managed to hold back my tears. "Everyone except you, son, because you're a moron.
Cesar Aira
#68. In 2012, I was diagnosed with melanoma - skin cancer - and had to get surgery on my left foot. I was out for four weeks - no dancing, no walking, nothing! It was horrible, but it taught me patience and to never take for granted the simple things we have.
Witney Carson
#69. God gives me the children's ministry heart and patience. This is what He wants. It's awesome. I don't know where He's gonna take it - but God is building this thing.
Willie Aames
#70. Had it pleas'd heaven
To try me with affliction * * *
I should have found in some place of my soul
A drop of patience.
William Shakespeare
#71. My mother is a ball of fire in the world, and I love that about her. But what I have learned from my stepdad is something as important, which is patience and compassion. Because when you are living with someone else, those two qualities go a long way.
Justin Timberlake
#72. I learned a lot about humility and patience, keeping my mouth shut.
Madonna Ciccone
#74. I wish I could say courteous flatteries to you," the farmer continued in an easier tone, "and put my rugged feeling into a graceful shape: but I have neither power nor patience to learn such things.
Thomas Hardy
#75. Earlier, looking lighter or slimmer never mattered to me. Frankly, I didn't care. I had more important things to do. But when I figured that it's not that hard, and I have the time, passion and patience to take it up, I jumped onto the health-wagon. I started working out.
Kajol
#76. Show me a man who mistakes patience for weakness and I'll show you a fool.
DeWayne Owens
#77. (Feedback) People become addicted to it. That's why journalism is so popular, because you want to hear, every day, what people think of what you just wrote. I think a little patience on that front can be good, too.
Zadie Smith
#78. I lose patience with long stories. I get people who go, "Crumb, do some long stories, do a graphic novel." Novel-schmovel.
Robert Crumb
#79. The extent of God's grace always eclipses the extent of my grotesqueness. Therefore, I can never be bad enough for God to tell me that He's had enough.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#80. To get nostalgic about other people's music, or even about your own, makes a terrible statement about the condition of your life and your prospects for the future. I have no patience with that kind of attitude, whether it's on radio or among friends.
Neil Peart
#81. [Today's left] would have left us with Slobodan Milosevic in power, Bosnia ethnically cleansed, Kosovo part of Greater Serbia, Afghanistan under the Taliban, and Iraq the property of a psychopathic crime family. Now, I'm sorry to say, I've no patience with that leftist mentality anymore.
Christopher Hitchens
#82. You have to respect your parents. They are giving you an at-bat. If you're an entrepreneur and go into the family business, you want to grow fast. Patience is important. But respect the other party ... My dad and I pulled it off because we really respect each other.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#83. I will bear any thing you can inflict upon me with Patience, even to the laying down of my Life, to shew my Obedience to you in other Cases; but I cannot be patient, I cannot be passive, when my Virtue is at Stake!
Samuel Richardson
#84. With marriage and fatherhood, I've finally found two fixed points in my life. They've taught me patience. They've also taught me that I don't need to feel guilty about being happy. My emotional seasons are less extreme.
Pete Wentz
#85. I have no patience with anyone born after World War II. You have to explain everything to these people.
Selma Diamond
#86. In love, all kinds of love, we wait. If I can't be your dawn, I will be your sunset!
Rossana Condoleo
#87. We can't have it both ways. We can't expect God to protect us in a crisis and just leave Him over there on the shelf in our day-to-day living. I wonder if sometimes He isn't waiting for us to wake up, He isn't maybe running out of patience.
Ronald Reagan
#88. I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it's up to me to choose to develop them.
Joyce Meyer
#89. I haven't been given many things, but I've been given ample, limitless patience.
Lincoln Diaz-Balart
#90. I like to live my life now with peace, patience, serenity, forgiveness, gratitude and acceptance of myself.xx Jean
Jean Murray
#91. I never think that I am the one who must see to it that cherries grow on stalks
C. G. Jung
#92. Our family love is so special, and I truly believe it is due to our work and dedication to communication and patience.
Allison Holker
#93. To Thetis,
Long overdue, I know, but every often the things we most desire come only after much patience and struggle. That is a human truth, I think. Even Peleus knew that.
-Seth
Richelle Mead
#94. Centuries ago, you told me that you were born for me, and I for you. You told me you'd convince me of that one day. You have." Through his caring. And his patience and generosity. His selfless protection. "Damn
Kresley Cole
#95. Patience is a form of faith. It says, "I trust God. I believe that God is bigger than this problem."
Rick Warren
#96. I will not be distracted by noise, chatter, or setbacks. Patience, commitment, grace, and purpose will guide me.
Louise L. Hay
#97. Just have the patience to hear me out,
and I will tell you what I've been about.
Joseph Plumb Martin
#98. You love him, I can see it."
"More than anything."
That alone should be enough, he thought, but of course it never is. Courage has to come in there somewhere, and perseverance and forbearance and patience and all the rest. A job of work, as Uncle Billy would say, but worth it and then some.
Jan Karon
#99. 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.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#100. I will exercise patience and will provide all facts to the general public.
Yingluck Shinawatra
