Patience Quotes

A very little thief of occasion will rob you of a great deal of patience.

Patience is sottish, and impatience does become a dog that's mad.

I do oppose my patience to his fury, and am arm'd to suffer with a quietness of spirit, the very tyranny and rage of his.

Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper sprinkle cool patience.

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

Had it pleas'd heaven to try me with affliction... I should have found in some place of my soul a drop of patience.

A high hope for a low heaven: God grant us patience!

You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.

A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.

There will be a time when loud-mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self destruct. It never fails.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

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.

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

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.

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.

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.

The fates have given mankind a patient soul.

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.