Top 100 Patience Waiting Quotes
#1. You have time. Meaning don't use it, but pass through time in patience, waiting for something to come. Prepare for its arrival. Don't rush to meet it. Be a conduit.
Rachel Kushner
#2. Patience, he thought. So much of this was patience - waiting, and thinking and doing things right. So much of all this, so much of all living was patience and thinking.
Gary Paulsen
#3. Sometimes they are a matter of luck; the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that he has seen and lost or for one that he anticipates.
Bill Brandt
#4. Great men wait for the right moment to abandon caution. The rest of us abandon it when impatience becomes too much for us.
Mason Cooley
#5. Don't give into him at all. Deny yourself. Because then your eyes will not be clouded by a madness that you cannot control, and then you will be able to learn to see him as he is. Do you understand?
Louis De Bernieres
#6. Man doesnt have the patience or the power to wait. But God does. He has all eternity to accomplish His purposes.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#7. Driving in Olathe was likewise an exercise in patience. Going anywhere often involved waiting at railroad crossings as a long freight train passed. David
Marek Fuchs
#8. Waiting for opportunities is patience;
creating opportunities is intelligence.
Reaping from opportunities is competence;
multiplying opportunities is brilliance.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#9. 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
#10. Waiting is a risk to something or nothing, its on your own Decision if you'll stay and still with your Patience.
Kent Ian N. Cny
#11. There is stability in walking an uncertain path, because you never allow yourself to be misled by what you think you know.
A.J. Darkholme
#12. Patience as we wait to take action is a kind of compassionate mind. Impatience on the other hand can be a source of failure.
Dalai Lama
#13. 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
#14. A lot of impulsive mistakes are made by people who simply aren't willing to stay bored a little longer.
Paul Aurandt Jr.
#15. There is a man waiting for a woman like you, don't settle for someone who only opens half of your heart.
Nikki Rowe
#16. He realized that, despite the dangers and alarms of the day, waiting was perhaps the worst thing of all.
Dan Abnett
#17. You develop patience that enables you to wait gracefully and gratefully until the best arrives because you know it will.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#18. We are sensible of the duty and expediency of submitting our opinions to the will of the majority, and can wait with patience till they get right if they happen to be at any time wrong.
Thomas Jefferson
#19. Who can wait quietly until the mud settles? Who can remain still until the moment of action?
Laozi
#20. Some things are worth the wait. A little suspense heightens the pleasure.
Jocelyn Murray
#21. Change moves incrementally from breath to breath and moment to moment, allowing for course-correction along the way.
Sharon Weil
#23. Have patience. Wait until the mud settles and the water is clear. Remain unmoving until right action arises by itself.
Laozi
#25. Patience is not waiting; it is a quality of waiting.
Sharon Weil
#26. Cultivate your craft. Water it daily, pour some tender loving care into it, and watch it grow. Remember that a plant doesn't sprout immediately. Be patient, and know that in life you will reap what you sow.
J.B. McGee
#27. Patience is only a virtue when there is something worth waiting for.
Lauren Willig
#28. Every man must patiently bide his time. He must wait
not in listless idleness but in constant, steady, cheerful endeavors, always willing and fulfilling and accomplishing his task, that when the occasion comes he may be equal to the occasion.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#29. Patience is not passive waiting. Patience is active acceptance of the process required to attain your goals and dreams.
Ray A. Davis
#31. Patience takes away lots of stress, regrets, & sleepless nights knowing that all is well at the end of the day if we just wait a little bit.
Assegid Habtewold
#32. [On being an actor] .nothing more than a worker in a service occupation . It's like being a waiter or a gas station attendant, but I'm waiting on 6 million people in a week if I'm lucky.
Harrison Ford
#33. Living For Love single and remixes available in UK soon! Sorry you have to wait! Its not my decision or my choice! Thanks for your patience! # rebelheart # livingforlove
Madonna Ciccone
#34. Extraordinary power exists in a trial of patience. Few endure their trials well enough to discover this.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#35. Everywhere in nature we are taught the lessons of patience and waiting. We want things a long time before we get them, and the fact that we want them a long time makes them all the more precious when they come.
Joseph F. Smith
#36. But the waiting time, my brothers,
Is the hardest time of all.
Sarah Doudney
#37. Patience has never been my strong suit.
I'm not exactly keen on waiting for anything.
Nor am I good at planning, for that matter.
I'm the shoot first, ask questions never type... you know, the kind to toss a grenade in a packed room to solve a personal problem?
J.M. Darhower
#38. In times of uncertainty, wait. Always, if you have any doubt, wait. Do not force yourself to any action. If you have a restraint in your spirit, wait until all is clear, and do not go against it.
Lettie Cowman
#39. It takes patience to make a man - the patience to listen, watch and wait.
Ogwo David Emenike
#40. If we are deprived of hope as well as fear, we are compensated by being given an almost endless patience for enduring or simply for waiting.
Joseph Wood Krutch
#42. Patience isn't simply waiting, it is caring enough about the situation and those involved to remain calm and courteous throughout the wait.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#44. Some broken things you can't mend. Some you have to put together very slowly piece by fragile piece, waiting until the last bit of work is strong enough before you try the next. It takes a lot of patience.
Juliet Marillier
#45. All things come to him who waits - provided he knows what he is waiting for.
Woodrow Wilson
#46. In the modern world, human beings display little tolerance for waiting. We are addicted to fast food, instant messaging, and other conveniences of life. Patience is a lost virtue.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#47. The world is always in a hurry, but I teach My children patience. Live, expecting a full and joyous life. And learn to trust My perfect timing so that you may discover that all the pain found in waiting has a magnificent and awesome purpose.
Eric Ludy
#48. Dare to keep moving when it is a must and dare to keep waiting when you have to, but note, you shall always keep waiting if you keep waiting and you shall always keep moving when you keep moving!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#49. Don't be in a hurry in life. The sacred-time determines the due events.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#50. Patience is not sitting and waiting, it is foreseeing. It is looking at the thorn and seeing the rose, looking at the night and seeing the day. Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full.
Rumi
#51. If you have the patience to wait and watch, history will reshape truth (weakest of all forces, and weightless) in the image of opinion. What really happened will cease to matter and, eventually, cease to exist.
Meg Rosoff
#52. I've already found the right person. I'm just waiting for her to be ready.
Jessica Clare
#53. The best is always worth waiting for. And once you taste it, no other taste will do.
T.F. Hodge
#54. Waiting is an expectant patience. It's a patience that says, "I don't know what God is going to do, but I know God is going to do something."
Max Lucado
#55. The waiting itself is beneficial to us: it tries faith, exercises patience, trains submission, and endears the blessing when it comes.
Charles Spurgeon
#56. When a painting problem crops up, don't rush to fix it. You probably already know one way to fix it, but wait for something else to show up ... invite the muses to bring you a new solution.
Carole Katchen
#57. If chess has any relationship to film-making, it would be in the way it helps you develop patience and discipline in choosing between alternatives at a time when an impulsive decision seems very attractive.
Stanley Kubrick
#58. Instead of our petulant, fretful, irritable human hastiness we should cultivate in our souls the patience which has learned to wait on God.
William Barclay
#59. We must let patience have its perfect work, remembering that there are precious promises in the Scriptures for those who wait upon the Lord.
Ellen G. White
#60. If God answers 'Yes', He is increasing your faith. If 'Wait', He is increasing your patience. If 'No', He has something better for you.
Nicky Gumbel
#61. Biding one's time is a very different thing from patience.
E.L. Konigsburg
#62. A waiting person is a patient person. The word patience means the willingness to stay where we are and live the situation out to the full in the belief that something hidden there will manifest itself to us.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#65. The hardest thing about "everything happens for a reason" is waiting for that reason to show up.
Karen Salmansohn
#66. This is the case with thousands: they appear desirous of knowing the truth, but have not patience to wait in a proper way to receive an answer to their question.
Adam Clarke
#68. The message had been delivered. All they could do now was wait. Valden hated waiting.
Nicole Sager
#69. We watch the sky, we watch it alive and we watch it die, looking for signs. We live like wind, with hope in wings that we will get there, never sooner or never later, but at a right time.
Anthony Liccione
#70. Desire for an idea is like bait. When you're fishing, you have to have patience. You bait your hook, and then you wait. The desire is the bait that pulls those fish in-those ideas.
David Lynch
#71. Believing isn't the hard part; waiting on God is. So I stuck with it and prayed impatiently for patience, and to stop feeling disgusted by myself, and to believe for a few moments that God, just a bit busy with other suffering in the world, actually cared about one menopausal white woman on a binge.
Anne Lamott
#72. It is important to be Intuitive at this time and allow the natural course to show you the way to the next step.
Auliq Ice
#73. All along I'd vaguely assumed the emptiness and the pain meant I was doing something wrong. But maybe it was all just part of the process so something new could be born. First the barrenness, to make space. Then the pain, which is the only way to a birth.
Stephanie Rische
#74. To wait is to wisely resign myself to the fact that my 'timetable' is too often a 'table' with two legs that won't stand up no matter how much 'time' I give it.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#75. I'm bidin' my time,
'Cause that's the kinda guy I'm.
Ira Gershwin
#76. If you can't ignore imperfections, then your imaginary ideal soulmate will always remain pending till you grow old and die.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#77. The Colombians are good-tempered people. They are used to waiting for buses that are late, used to riding buses and trains that do not arrive.
Paul Theroux
#78. Waiting with hope is very difficult, but true patience is expressed when we must even wait for hope. I will have reached the point of greatest strength once I have learned to wait for hope."
George Matheson
George Matheson
#79. Fear is the glue that keeps you stuck. Faith is the solvent that sets you free.
Shannon L. Alder
#80. Be as fast as Usain Bolt, the winner is the winner, even if he crawls like a crab, his destiny is unshakable.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#82. It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
Elizabeth Taylor
#83. Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#84. Even a snail will eventually reach its destination.
Gail Tsukiyama
#86. Your patience may have long to wait,Whether in little things or great,But all good luck, you soon will learn,Must come to those who nobly earn.Who hunts the hay-field overWill find the four-leaved clover.
Sarah Orne Jewett
#87. Every struggle is like mud - there are always some lotus seeds waiting to sprout.
Amit Ray
#88. Real patience is not the same as waiting impatiently for something for a long time. Patience is having patience with patience.
H.M. Forester
#90. If you create you will also wait, and while you're waiting you will want to be patient but not idle ... responses from the world often take a long time.
Eric Maisel
#91. To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.
Criss Jami
#93. I realized that the deepest spiritual lessons are not learned by His letting us have our way in the end, but by His making us wait, bearing with us in love and patience until we are able to honestly to pray what He taught His disciples to pray: Thy will be done.
Elisabeth Elliot
#95. Those who do not hope cannot wait; but if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
Charles Spurgeon
#96. Hope requires waiting. Waiting requires patience.
Sharon Weil
#97. If you knew where your happiness came from, it gave you patience. You realized that a lot of the time, you were just waiting out a situation, and that took the pressure off; you no longer looked to every interaction to actually do something for you.
Curtis Sittenfeld
#100. Sometimes the real action in a conversation takes place in the pauses, when nothing at all is being said.
Rob Kendall
