Quotes About the Remarkable Power of Patience
Sometimes the best things in life are those things we wait the longest for.
Frustration Happens. Every morning, noon, and night, there are plenty of good reasons to be impatient. Another long line. Telemarketers. A goal isn’t materializing fast enough. People don’t do what they’re supposed to. Rejection. Disappointment. here are some wise quotes to remind you why.
Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby.
– George Bernard Shaw
To lose patience is to lose the battle.
– Mahatma Gandhi
Be where you are; otherwise you will miss your life.
– Buddha
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
– Leo Tolstoy
As you know, life is an echo; we get what we give.
– David DeNotaris
One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life.
– Chinese Proverb
There are no regrets in life, just lessons.
– Jennifer Aniston
I take things as they come and find that patience and persistence tend to win out in the end.
– Paul Kane
Learning patience can be a difficult experience, but once conquered you will find life is easier.
– Catherine Pulsifer
Find people who will make you better.
– Michelle Obama
Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.
– George Bernard Shaw
Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.
– George-Louis de Buffon
You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.
– Michael Phelps
Patience, persistence, and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
– Napoleon Hill
When you encounter various trials, big or small, be full of joy. They’re opportunities to learn patience.
– Scott Curran
Patience is the ornament of the brave. Patience is the real badge of courage; it is equally the mark of love.
– Eknath Easwaran
Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.
– Brian Adams
Many a man has left the dock just before his ship came in. Time has great power to solve problems. Counsel patience.
– Wilfred Peterson
One of the paradoxes of life is that being impatient often makes it harder to achieve something. As with any skill, you get better at manifesting the more you practice.
– Simon Foster
Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
– James J. Corbett
Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.
– Robert H. Schuller
Here are 50+ quotes about the remarkable power of patience:
- “Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.” – Joyce Meyer
- “The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.” – Arnold H. Glasow
- “Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.” – Aristotle
- “Genius is eternal patience.” – Michelangelo
- “Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.” – John Quincy Adams
- “Patience is the companion of wisdom.” – Saint Augustine
- “Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life.” – Chinese Proverb
- “Our patience will achieve more than our force.” – Edmund Burke
- “Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.” – Saadi
- “Patience is a conquering virtue.” – Geoffrey Chaucer
- “With love and patience, nothing is impossible.” – Daisaku Ikeda
- “Patience is the art of hoping.” – Luc de Clapiers
- “Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.” – A.A. Milne
- “The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.” – Leo Tolstoy
- “To lose patience is to lose the battle.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “Patience is the key to contentment.” – The Prophet Muhammad
- “Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.” – Plautus
- “He that can have patience can have what he will.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.” – Napoleon Hill
- “Patience is the key to paradise.” – Turkish Proverb
- “Patience is the road to wisdom.” – Kao Kalia Yang
- “Patience is a key element of success.” – Bill Gates
- “Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is ‘timing’ it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.” – Fulton J. Sheen
- “Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind.” – David G. Allen
- “The secret of patience is to do something else in the meantime.” – Croft M. Pentz
- “Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.” – Soren Kierkegaard
- “Patience is the support of weakness; impatience is the ruin of strength.” – Charles Caleb Colton
- “Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.” – John Ruskin
- “The greatest power is often simple patience.” – E. Joseph Cossman
- “Patience is a virtue, possession is happiness.” – Turkish Proverb
- “Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “Patience and diligence, like faith, remove mountains.” – William Penn
- “All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.” – Thomas a Kempis
- “Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.” – Barbara Johnson
- “Patience is the key to joy.” – Rumi
- “Patience is the key to everything. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.” – Arnold H. Glasow
- “A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.” – George Savile
- “Patience is not passive, on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.” – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
- “Patience is the ornament of the brave. Patience is the real badge of courage; it is equally the mark of love.” – Eknath Easwaran
- “Learning patience can be a difficult experience, but once conquered you will find life is easier.” – Catherine Pulsifer
- “Patience is the mother of all virtues.” – Geoffrey Chaucer
- “Patience is the key that solves all problems.” – Sudanese Proverb
- “Patience is the virtue of an ass that trots beneath his burden, and is quiet.” – George Granville
- “Patience is the greatest of all shock absorbers.” – Unknown
- “Patience is a flower that grows not in everyone’s garden.” – Unknown
- “Patience is the virtue of the strong.” – Japan Proverb
- “Patience is the ability to count down before you blast off.” – Unknown
- “Patience is the best weapon.” – Chinese Proverb
- “Patience is the greatest prayer.” – Buddha
- “Patience is a bitter plant that produces sweet fruit.” – Charles Spurgeon
- “Patience is the greatest of all virtues.” – Cato the Elder
- “Patience is the ability to put up with people you’d like to put down.” – Unknown
- “Patience is the virtue that gives birth to all other virtues.” – Chinese Proverb
- “Patience is the virtue that takes the most practice.” – Confucius
- “Patience is the virtue that carries a lot of wait.” – Unknown
- “Patience is the greatest of all virtues in this life and the next.” – Catherine Pulsifer
- “Patience is a fruit of the Spirit that grows only under trial.” – Joyce Meyer
- “Patience is the greatest of all virtues; in it lies the seed of hope.” – Charles Spurgeon
- “Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.” – Guy Kawasaki
- “Patience is the key to achieving your dreams.” – Unknown
- “Patience is the art of expecting the unexpected.” – Unknown
