Top 100 Quotes About Our Patience
#1. Iran has to live up to its international obligations ... The president has said that our patience is not unlimited.
Barack Obama
#2. Parents test our patience more than anyone else ... Being around them keeps you in check ... that's what keeps you humbled.
Nouman Ali Khan
#3. Our patience is not infinite. We're not willing to let this go on forever.
Barack Obama
#4. Those who are too slow to be intelligent deserve our patience, those who are too quick, our pity.
James Richardson
#5. What's really transformative is our willingness to keep going, our openness to possibility, our patience, our effort, our humor, our growing self-knowledge, and the strength that we gain as we keep going.
Sharon Salzberg
#6. If Iran does not take steps in the near future to live up to its obligations, then the United States will not continue to negotiate indefinitely ... Our patience is not unlimited.
Barack Obama
#7. Indeed, this life is a test. It is a test of many things - of our convictions and priorities, our faith and our faithfulness, our patience and our resilience, and in the end, our ultimate desires.
Sheri L. Dew
#8. You'll dine with us, Comte? And you, Anthony?"
"I trespass on your hospitality!" Armand protested.
"Devil a bit, man!" said Rupert. "It's Avon's hospitality you trespass on, and our patience.
Georgette Heyer
#9. He will unfailingly be pleased with our patience and take note of our diligence and perseverance.
Francis De Sales
#10. When, President Obama, do you mean to cease abusing our patience? How long is that madness of yours still to mock us? When is there to be an end to that unbridled audacity of yours swaggering about as it does now?
Ted Cruz
#11. If it pleases Him to bid our patience exercise itself, shall He not do as He wills with His own!
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#12. I constantly signal to the Iraqi leaders that our patience, or the patience of the American people, is running out
Zalmay Khalilzad
#13. I am more and more convinced that some people are put in our lives solely to try our patience and tamper with our tolerance levels.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#14. In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair-mindedness, and gentleness with what is strange.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#15. Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Edmund Burke
#16. In the path of compassion our patience, resilience and endurance are often challenged. Sometimes we may fail but we have to stand up again because ultimate joy of compassion is immeasurable for us and the whole world.
Amit Ray
#17. Allah tests our patience and our fortitude. He tests out strength of faith. be patient and there will endless rewards for you, insha'Allah - Utaz Badr
Leila Aboulela
#18. Much of our trading comes down to a battle between our patience and our impulses.
Steve Burns
#19. Our enemies provide us with a precious opportunity to practice patience and love. We should have gratitude toward them.
Dalai Lama
#20. It is ... very helpful to think of adversity not so much as a threat to our peace of mind but rather as the very means by which patience is attained.
Dalai Lama
#21. PRAYER O God, our merciful Father in heaven, fill our hearts with patience under the cross, strengthen our faith, and so govern us that we give offense to none, neither in word nor deed. Grant us also this day all that we need for body and soul. Amen.
Martin Luther
#22. We gardeners are healthy, joyous, natural creatures. We are practical, patient, optimistic. We declare our optimism every year, every season, with every act of planting.
Carol Deppe
#23. Patience and tranquility of mind contribute more to cure
our distempers as the whole art of medicine
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
#24. [ ... ] The monks sped up the process up for us laowai who have less time, less patience for basics, and a greater need for external markers of our accomplishments.
Matthew Polly
#25. There's something about patience that God deems necessary for our life in the age to come and so, whether through agriculture or discipleship or bodily development or eschatology or procreation, God makes us wait
Russell D. Moore
#26. We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it, as the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.
Plotinus
#27. THE CHAMP A novel by Daniel Martin Eckhart Dedicated to my wife Nathalie and our children Nick, Milo and Eliza for all their love, laughter and patience. Thank you for letting me be part of your journeys. Copyright
Daniel Martin Eckhart
#28. 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
#29. When people used to complain to the Buddha that they were upset, telling him, "Our children upset us; our partner agitates us," his simple reply would be, "You are not upset because of your children or your partner; you are upset because you are upsettable.
Eknath Easwaran
#30. We retaliate instead of reflect, and we burn hot in the flames of revenge rather than cool our heels in the pool of patience.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#31. Only because the message concerning Jesus Christ must still go forth and find believers, and because our task is not yet perfected, does God in His patience continue to sustain us with His good gifts.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#32. It has oft been said that physicians make the worst patients, but it is the opinion of This Author that any man makes a terrible patient. One might say it takes patience to be a patient, and heaven knows, the males of our species lack an abundance of patience.
Julia Quinn
#33. Since karma is meeting self, we acquire karma as we meet self in our many attitudes and emotions; when we serve in loving kindness and patience or hold resentful malicious thoughts What we do to our fellow man we do to our Maker our karma or problem is within self.
Edgar Cayce
#34. To pray is to change. This is a great grace. How good of God to provide a path whereby our lives can be taken over by love and joy and peace and patience and kindness and goodness and faithfulness and gentleness and self-control.
Richard J. Foster
#35. Thank you for patience that you may reward it, thank you for brokenness that you may mend it, thank you for love that you may enlarge it above our most heartfelt expectations.
Jan Karon
#37. I have no patience for anyone who thinks they've figured things out, no patience for people who think they're right at the expense of everyone else. The world is too connected and too complicated to conform to any of our rigid ideas of what it should be like.
Moby
#38. Sometimes, we just have to have enough faith to practice patience and not let our impatience morph into doubt.
Tracie Miles
#39. If we have the patience to wait until the mud (our mind) settles and the water is clear, if we remain unmoving till the right action arises by itself, the right words will arise, without our thinking about them.
Charlotte Joko Beck
#40. Our time is fixed and settled by eternal decree. Let us not be anxious about it, but wait with patience until the gates of pearl shall open.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#41. I lose my patience, and I own it too,
When works are censur'd, not as bad but new;
While if our Elders break all reason's laws,
These fools demand not pardon but Applause.
Alexander Pope
#42. No doubt our love was still there, but quite simply it was unusable, heavy to carry, inert inside of us, sterile as crime or condemnation. It was no longer anything except a patience with no future and a stubborn wait.
Albert Camus
#43. I wonder if we might pledge ourselves to remember what life is really all about - not to be afraid that we're less flashy than the next, not to worry that our influence is not that of a tornado, but rather that of a grain of sand in an oyster! Do we have that kind of patience?
Fred Rogers
#44. Our attention span is shot. We've all got Attention Deficit Disorder or ADD or OCD or one of these disorders with three letters because we don't have the time or patience to pronounce the entire disorder. That should be a disorder right there, TBD - Too Busy Disorder.
Ellen DeGeneres
#45. In particular, our church will have to confront the vices of hubris, the worship of power, envy, and illusionism[28] as the roots of all evil. It will have to speak of moderation, authenticity, trust, faithfulness, steadfastness, patience, discipline, humility, modesty, contentment.[
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#46. There are times in life that you don't have to waste time at all, and there are times in life where delay saves time, purpose and life. In all things we do we must not forget this one thing: our lives have been timed!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#47. Our ability to have patience, and our attitude toward others, define who we are at any given time.
Ellen J. Barrier
#48. I have embraced crying mothers who have lost their children because our politicians put their personal agendas before the national good. I have no patience for injustice, no tolerance for government incompetence, no sympathy for leaders who fail their citizens.
Donald Trump
#49. Every time we hold our tongues instead of returning the sharp retort, show patience with another's faults, show a little more love and kindness, we are helping to stock-pile more of these peace-bringing qualities in the world instead of armaments for war.
Connie Foster
#50. Patience lives in the gap between our experience of an event and our response to that experience.
Allan Lokos
#51. Dudjom Rinpoche has said, "The point of patience is to train so that our altruistic attitude is immovable and irrepressible in the face of those who hurt us with their ingratitude and so forth.
Lodro Rinzler
#52. 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
#53. In your way that I have come to know and appreciate, you did not say anything. You didn't push me to say more. You waited. Your patience is a gift. You trusted our silence.
M.J. Rose
#54. Leofric met her eye, his own gaze hard. He was clearly losing patience with her. "This is life," he snapped. "It's not sweet and it's not pretty - but before you look at me with scorn remember I've just saved both our lives.
Jayne Castel
#55. Our levels of desire, patience, persistence, and confidence end up playing a much larger role in success than sheer reasoning powers.
Robert Greene
#56. Silence is victory and patience is glory.
Let silence speak our identity
and let patience keep our dignity.
Aram Seriteratai
#57. Ah, my dear! Let this be a lesson to you never to lose your temper!' 'Hold your tongue, Ma!' said the young Crab, a little snappishly. 'You're enough to try the patience of an oyster!' 'I wish I had our Dinah here, I know I do!' said Alice aloud, addressing nobody in particular.
Lewis Carroll
#58. In this world of Maya, which is averse to the Lord, full of trials and tribulations, only patience, humility and respect for others are our friends for Hari bhajana.
Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati
#59. All that we know theologically must be "accessed" by our heart with all the joy, peace, self-control, love, durability, patience, and graciousness that it should produce in a human being.
Timothy Keller
#60. We'd incorporated Asia into our bones - its colours and laughter, its smells, its rhythms, its tolerance and patience, its compassion, its lack of ageism.
Jane Wilson-Howarth
#61. Ackbar interjects: But we also must recognize the Empire's ability to play the long game. Our victory over Endor was fortunate, but the Empire orchestrated that trap with great patience.
Chuck Wendig
#62. If we cut speed and relax with what's going on in our life right now, kindness and patience will naturally come about.
Sakyong Mipham
#63. Wherever there is sincerity & talent, people do recognize them. It may take some time but we should have some patience and hold on to our passion.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#65. Evil can never survive, though for a time it may seem to triumph. It is only a question of our endurance and patience.
Swami Paramananda
#66. When God says hold up, wait, pray, it's not your time yet, our entire bodies rebel, legs kicking and flailing like some overturned dung beetle certain that if we try hard enough we might be able to gain a little traction on our own
Heather Choate Davis
#67. We could not learn love in the abstract any more than we could learn patience and the other cardinal virtues. Just as we cannot know the "fellowship of his sufferings" without suffering, we also come to know real fellowship with our fellowmen only by serving them.
Neal A. Maxwell
#68. Our most valuable teachers are our enemies.While our friends can help us in many ways, only our enemies can provide us with the challenge we need to develop tolerance, patience, and compassionthree virtues essential for building character, developing peace of mind, and bringing us true happiness.
Dalai Lama
#69. 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
#70. Managers at [the nuclear] sector should know that we need diplomacy and not slogans, .. This [is] where we should use all our leverages with patience and wisdom, without provocation and slogans that can give pretexts to the enemies.
Bill Vaughan
#71. But when the Holy Spirit controls our lives, he will produce this kind of fruit in us: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Galatians 5:22
Nicholas Sparks
#72. We're in charge of our own forgiveness, and the process takes time, patience, and intention.
Sharon Salzberg
#73. It is our enemies who provide us with the challenge we need to develop the qualities of tolerance, patience, and compassion.
Dalai Lama XIV
#74. Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience. And in almost every case, we use up our lives making money, when we should be using our money to gain time.
Albert Camus
#75. Patience is the training in abiding with the restlessness of our energy and letting things evolve at their own speed.
Pema Chodron
#76. We should not scorn those whose fear is greater than our own.
Warren Eyster
#77. I have a business manager and a book-keeper who deals with our household bills. My husband and I sit down with her for a weekly report on how much money is going out, but I'm not terribly interested, and I don't have the patience for it.
Jane Green
#78. It seems to me that-at least in our scientific theories of behavior-we have failed to accept the simple fact that human relations are inherently fraught with difficulties and that to make them even relatively harmonious requires much patience and hard work.
Thomas Szasz
#80. Discipline comes from the same root word as disciple, and implies patience and teaching on our part. It should not be done in anger,
Lynn G. Robbins
#81. Time changes everything, but with patience we can keep our desires relatively constant. If we can just hang on long enough, time will eventually create for us the conditions in which we can succeed.
Denis Waitley
#82. Process transforms any journey into a series of small steps, taken one by one, to reach any goal. Process transcends time, teaches patience, rests on a solid foundation of careful preparation, and embodies trust in our unfolding potential.
Dan Millman
#83. And we ask the American people to play an important part of our layered defense. We ask for cooperation, patience and a commitment to vigilance in the face of a determined enemy.
Janet Napolitano
#84. Let's go old school to impress people. Wear a smile, rather than a branded dress. Crease out our differences with understanding. And, use empathy, care, and patience as accessories. Then, let's make a conversation, not talk.
Ah, what a fine world it would be! Fine, pure and minus artifice.
Saru Singhal
#85. Patience doesn't mean making a pact with the devil of denial, ignoring our emotions and aspirations. It means being wholeheartedly engaged in the process that's unfolding, rather than ripping open a budding flower or demanding a caterpillar hurry up and get that chrysalis stage over with.
Sharon Salzberg
#86. I don't think I'd rock a moustache. I don't mind growing a beard. I think it's just a guy thing. We like to nurture a beard, see what we can grow and sort of test our own patience with how long we can let it grow out. However, I'm not really as keen on moustaches as I am on beards.
James Magnussen
#87. The lessons we learn from patience will cultivate our character, lift our lives, and heighten our happiness.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#88. 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
#89. echo James's exhortation to those of us in the church today: My brothers and sisters who have received the Holy Spirit, we often lack love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, etc., even while many of our unbelieving friends exhibit these traits - brothers and sisters, these things ought not to be so!
Francis Chan
#90. Impatience can be very good by helping us not put up with tyranny, but it can distort our view of what is possible and how to bring about change. We have to cultivate patience so that our perception isn't distorted.
Paul Ekman
#91. God allows difficulties, inconveniences, trials, and even suffering to come our way for a specific purpose: They help develop the right attitude for the growth of patience.
Billy Graham
#92. Patience is both the tool for and the result of, our efforts.
Allan Lokos
#93. Though situations and circumstances arise which sometimes test our faith and patience, the Lord can be trusted to see us through.
Roderick L. Evans
#94. Patience will be on our side."
"I once heard that patience is a vulture in wait to take out its prey when all seems safe.
Cyndi Goodgame
#95. Grace is the wonderful spirit that imbues every fiber of our being when we practice the fruits of the spirit: kindness, patience, understanding, forgiveness, love, gentleness, fellowship and endurance.
Edgar Cayce
#96. Our problem is that we often expect instantaneous solutions to such challenges, forgetting that frequently the heavenly virtue of patience is required.
Thomas S. Monson
#97. Our lives are to be characterized by patience, for it is important in developing the mature, stable character which God wants to produce in His people.
Billy Graham
#98. No doubt, our love persisted, but in practice it served nothing; it was an inert mass within us, sterile as crime of a life sentence. It had declined on a patience that led nowhere, a dogged expectation.
Albert Camus
#99. In our lives we know joy, anger, sorrow, and a hundred other emotions, but these emotions altogether occupy a bare one per cent of our time. The remaining ninety-nine per cent is just living in waiting.
Osamu Dazai
#100. To develop patience, you need someone who willfully hurts you. Such people give us real opportunities to practice tolerance. They test our inner strength in a way that even our guru cannot. Basically, patience protects us from being discouraged.
Dalai Lama
