Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Patience
Quotations & Citations:
Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.
~A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.
~Dutch Proverb
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?
~Paul Sweeney
Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.
~Mac McCleary
Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
~ Molière
Patience is the ability to count down before you blast off.
~Author Unknown
Beware the fury of a patient man.
~John Dryden
The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.
~Paulo Coelho
Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.
~Lord Chesterfield
Patience: A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.
~Ambrose Bierce
He that can have patience can have what he will.
~Benjamin Franklin
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
~Franklin P. Jones
Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.
~George-Louis de Buffon
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
~Aristotle
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
~John Quincy Adams
Patience and wisdom walk hand in hand, like two one-armed lovers.
~Jarod Kintz
Have patience, my friend, have patience;
For Rome wasn’t built in a day!
You wear yourself out for nothing
In many and many a way!
Why are you nervous and fretty
When things do not move along fast;
Why let yourself get excited
Over things that will soon be past?~Gertrude Tooley Buckingham
The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.
~Leo Tolstoy
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
~St. Augustine
Patience is also a form of action.
~Auguste Rodin
I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
~Margaret Thatcher
How poor are they that have not patience!
What wound did ever heal but by degrees?~William Shakespeare
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
One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life.
~Chinese Proverb
Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.
~Michel de Montaigne
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
~Hal Borland