Patience

quotes on patience from Quotations Page:

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
-- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)

A great preservative against angry and mutinous thoughts, and all impatience and quarreling, is to have some great business and interest in your mind, which, like a sponge shall suck up your attention and keep you from brooding over what displeases you.
-- Joseph Rickaby

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering you own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew.
-- Saint Francis de Sales

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)

Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.
-- Brian Adams

It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
-- Elizabeth Taylor (1932 - ), "A Wreath of Roses"

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
-- Hyman Rickover (1900 - 1986)

How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees.
-- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)

Patience is the companion of wisdom.
-- Saint Augustine (354 AD - 430 AD)

He that can have patience can have what he will.
-- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)

It is hard to have patience with people who say "There is no death" or "Death doesn't matter." There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.
-- C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)

With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
-- Chinese proverb

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
-- Dr. Laurence J. Peter

Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.
-- George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon

All human power is a compound of time and patience.
-- Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850)

Through patience a ruler can be persuaded, and a gentle tongue can break a bone.
-- Proverbs 25:15

Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.
-- Peter Marshall

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
-- Unknown

For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their own cross-grained ungentleness; whilst others, it may be much less gifted, make their way and achieve success by simple patience, equanimity, and self-control.
-- Smiles

Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players. Cultivated labor drives out brute labor.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
-- Author Unknown

There are times when God asks nothing of his children except silence, patience and tears.
-- C. S. Robinson

They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor.
--Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)

An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains.
-- Dutch

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
-- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)

It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is simple patience.
-- Horace Bushnell

Whoever is out of patience is out of possession of his soul. Men must not turn into bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
-- Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)

It seems to me probable that anyone who has a series of intolerable positions to put up with must have been responsible for them in some extent; not that it was simply "their fault" - I don't mean that- but that they have contributed to it by impatience, or intolerance, or brusqueness- or some provocation.
-- Robert Hugh Benson