Top 100 Quotes About Patience
#1. It's strange how in childhood it feels like tomorrow won't come until the end of forever, but in adulthood it feels like the end of forever could come tomorrow.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#2. Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer.
Mark Z. Danielewski
#3. He didn't lead anyone on, or make any promises. Instead he conveyed a sense of calm and equanimity, like a man who had banished from his life all superfluous sentiment, all longings and all patience for the nonessential. He was like Yoda, Buddha and the Gladiator all rolled into one.
Michael Robotham
#4. 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
#5. Our enemies provide us with a precious opportunity to practice patience and love. We should have gratitude toward them.
Dalai Lama
#6. 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
#9. To train the mind, you must exercise the patience and determination it takes to shape that steel.
Dalai Lama XIV
#10. The Sage was asked to define good manners? to which he replied, To bear patiently the rude ones.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol
#11. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. Spiritual maturity testifies of one's level of patience
Sunday Adelaja
#16. You were patient, but I worried that your very patience tempted Kevin to try it.
Lionel Shriver
#17. Lack of patience is probably the most common reason for losing a game, or drawing games that should have been won.
Bent Larsen
#18. (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
#19. But to give him anything to drink was impossible, or would have been so had not the landlord bored a reed, and putting one end in his mouth poured the wine into him through the other; all which he bore with patience rather than sever the ribbons of his helmet.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#20. 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
#21. Do not be feverish about success, if your aim is clear and you have patience to move towards it, nature will support you.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#22. A handful of patience is worth a bushel of brains
Hobart Brown
#23. 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
#24. From adversity we can learn the value of patience.
Dalai Lama
#25. Difficult times are pregnant with glory moments just waiting to be birthed in the lives of those willing to labor through the pain.
Sharon Jaynes
#26. Whoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little constant and the rumours so little founded on truth
James De La Vega
#27. That which in mean men we entitle patience
Is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.
William Shakespeare
#28. Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?
Andrew Greeley
#29. It was the waiting and watching that cost the most. For during that time he had to endure.
Orson Scott Card
#30. Sometimes we just have to trust that time and fate will bring us back to where we are supposed to be. Sometimes patience and belief are all we have.
Terry Brooks
#31. We must strive for literacy and education that teach us to never quit questioning and probing at the assumptions of the day.
Bryant McGill
#32. If patience and gratitude had been she camels, it would have mattered little on which I rode.
Umar
#33. A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience.
Stanley Baldwin
#34. It is not our difficulties or our suffering alone that makes us wise. It is what we add to them
patience, perseverance, compassion, courage, love. From this combination, our priceless pearls of wisdom grow.
Barbara De Angelis
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. Enlightenment is just the beginning, later on come other skills ... patience, a forgiving nature, extreme attention ...
E. J. Gold
#40. Give Happiness, Patience, kindness, and Care, and the PAIN goes away.
Then only LOVE remains ...
Tsem Tulku Rinpoche
#42. Patience is hard when your very soul cries for freedom.
Alan Kinross
#43. The work that God does in us when we wait is usually more important than the thing for which we wait!
Erwin W. Lutzer
#44. You don't always have to teach the the corrective lesson. Sometimes you can teach the lesson of patience and non-engagement.
Bryant McGill
#45. My wife is the most awesome person in the universe. She's made this experience much less miserable for me, with her compassion, patience and understanding.
Wil Wheaton
#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. punishment had not been spared--with best results in patience and purification
George MacDonald
#51. I should learn patience, it's a shame there's no time for that.
Maija Haavisto
#52. True love isn't expressed in passionately whispered words an intimate kiss or a embrace; before two people are married, love is expressed in self-control, patience, even words left unsaid.
Joshua Harris
#53. There are no riches like the sweetness of content, nor poverty comparable to the want of patience.
Roger Chamberlain
#54. Patience is a crucial but rare investment commodity.
David Dreman
#57. Dating someone on the opposite end of the happy spectrum teaches you an incredible amount of patience.
Chris Pine
#58. The only skills I have the patience to learn are those that have no real application in life.
John Calvin
#59. We cannot overcome anger and hatred simply by suppressing them. We need to actively cultivate the antidotes: patience and tolerance.
Dalai Lama
#61. Up there, up there in the vastness of space, in the void that is sky, up there is an enemy known as isolation. It sits there in the stars waiting, waiting with the patience of eons, forever waiting in the Twilight Zone.
Rod Serling
#62. Better grounded emotionally through patience, we become stronger mentally and spiritually, and tend to be healthier physically.
Dalai Lama
#64. 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
#65. Communication is the ability to ensure that people understand not only what you say but also what you mean. It is also the ability to listen to and understand others. Developing both of these aspects of communication takes a lot of time, patience, and hard work.
Myles Munroe
#66. Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind.
David G. Allen
#67. Man doesnt have the patience or the power to wait. But God does. He has all eternity to accomplish His purposes.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. Don't rush your legs to feed your greed. They will rush to judge you as the greedy one.
Auliq Ice
#71. The distance between what bothers you and what doesn't is patience.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#72. Helen, who was wild to be doing, and who had no patience for the limitation of words, or of thoughts, or even of the body, though she trusted the body most.
Walter Van Tilburg Clark
#73. 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
#74. If, like the prophet Noah, you have patience in the distress of the flood, Calamity turns aside, and the desire of a thousand years comes forth.
Hafez
#75. By perfecting the practices of zazen and mindfulness, by learning patience and love and by realizing the essential emptiness of all phenomena, you will discover nirvana.
Frederick Lenz
#76. In any situation you can think of, impatience is a source of weakness and fear, while patience represents substance and strength.
Jim Rohn
#77. ...that when you wanted to see something very badly,sometimes you had to stay still,stay in the same place, remember how much you wanted to see it,and be patient.If you want to see hawks you have to be patient too.
Helen Macdonald
#78. Those who desire to become rich, desire it at once.
Juvenal
#79. Time and patience would bring a snail to America,' he repeated.
Colm Toibin
#80. Art is neither a muscle nor a cure for ugliness. Ugliness has its own reasons and convictions to stay here. Art has a patience of a civilized, patience to withhold the gentleness of the civilization.
Ashutosh Gupta
#81. 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
#82. Patience with family members and others who are close to us is vital for us to have happy homes.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#83. Any artwork needs time and patience and needs above a quiet mind.
Flora Thompson
#84. The bane of sects, especially in Bengal, is that if any one happens to have a different opinion, he immediately starts a new sect, he has no patience to wait.
Swami Vivekananda
#85. Architecture is a discipline that takes time and patience. If one spends enough years writing complex novels one might be able, someday, to construct a respectable haiku.
Thom Mayne
#87. Teaching is one of the noblest of professions. It requires an adequate preparation and training, patience, devotion, and a deep sense of responsibility. Those who mold the human mind have wrought not for time, but for eternity.
Calvin Coolidge
#89. It requires strength of character in order to think and to act in opposite fashion from the crowd and also patience to wait for opportunities that may be spaced years apart.
Benjamin Graham
#90. 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
#91. MOM - noun - One who sacrifices her body, sleep, social life, spending money, eating hot meals, peeing alone, patience, memory, energy and sanity for LOVE!
Tanya Masse
#92. Students of cunning have consumed their hearts and learned only tricks; they've thrown away real riches: patience, self-sacrifice, generosity. Rich thought opens the way.
Rumi
#93. Patience is something I can't wait to have!
Todd Stocker
#94. 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
#95. Have patience, heart.
Homer
#96. Wise men are not pacifists; they are merely less likely to jump up and retaliate against their antagonizers. They know that needless antagonizers are virtually already insecure enough.
Criss Jami
#97. Sometimes you have to find the patience to wait for good things instead of seeking it out.
Micalea Smeltzer
#98. If you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. Let us hope that.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#99. Love teaches you humility - patience - understanding.
Charles Todd
#100. What we need is a cup of understanding, a barrel of love, and an ocean of patience.
Saint Francis De Sales
