patience Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

55 patience Quotes
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“Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.”
Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
“All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope”
Alexandre Dumas Père Quotes
“Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that is patience.”
Saint Augustine Quotes
“Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All thing pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for. He who has God Finds he lacks nothing:God alone suffices.”
St. Teresa of Avila Quotes
“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Quotes
“He that can have Patience, can have what he will”
Benjamin Franklin Quotes
“Patience and fortitude conquer all things”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
“Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.”
Corazon Aquino Quotes
“With strength and patience all his grievous loads are borne, And from the world's rose-bed he only asks a thorn.”
William R. Alger Quotes
Source: Oriental Poetry, Mussud's Praise of the Camel
“The Lord is good unto them who wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Lamentations (ch. III, v. 25)
“I worked with patience which means almost power.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes
Source: Aurora Leigh (bk. III, l. 205)
“And I must bear What is ordained with patience, being aware Necessity doth front the universe With an invincible gesture.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes
Source: Prometheus Bound
“But there are times when patience proves at fault.”
Robert Browning Quotes
Source: Paracelsus (sc. 3)
“There is however a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.”
Edmund Burke Quotes
Source: Observations on a Late Publication on the Present State of the Nation
“Patience and shuffle the cards. [Sp., Paciencia y barajar.]”
Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) Quotes
Source: Don Quixote (II, 23)
“Thus with hir fader for a certeyn space Dwelleth this flour of wyfly pacience, That neither by hir wordes ne his face Biforn the fold, ne eek in her absence, Ne shewed she that hir was doon offence.”
Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
Source: The Canterbury Tales (V, l. 13,254), The Clerk's Tale
“Patience is sorrow's salve.”
Charles Churchill Quotes
Source: Prophecy of Famine (l. 363)
“His patient soul endures what Heav'n ordains, But neither feels nor fears ideal pains.”
George Crabbe Quotes
Source: The Borough (letter XVII)
“Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.”
Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
Source: Contarini Fleming (pt. IV, ch. 5)
“But the waiting time, my brothers, Is the hardest time of all.”
Sarah Doudney Quotes
Source: Psalms of Life--The Hardest Time of All
“The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.”
George Herbert Quotes
Source: The Church Porch (st. 72)
“Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this.”
George Herbert Quotes
Source: The Church Porch (st. 72)
“It is hard! But what can not be removed, becomes lighter through patience. [Lat., Durum! sed levius fir patientia Quicquid corrigere est nefas.]”
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes
Source: Carmina (I, 24, 19)
“For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill.”
Samuel Johnson Quotes
Source: The Vanity of Human Wishes (l. 352)
“By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never. [Fr., Patience et longueur de temps. Font plus que force ni que rage.]”
Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
Source: Fables (II, 11)