Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Patience

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 (1933–2009) Filipino Stateswoman

Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Augustine of Hippo (354–430) Roman-African Christian Philosopher

Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.
Confucius (551–479 BCE) Chinese Philosopher

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.
Ralph Marston American Self-Help Author

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
Chinese Proverb

Patience and the passage of time do more than strength and fury.
Jean de La Fontaine (1621–95) French Poet, Short Story Writer

He who is not impatient is not in love.
Italian Proverb

Time brings all things to pass.
Aeschylus (525–456 BCE) Greek Playwright

Patience is a virtue, Virtue is a grace; Both put together Make a very pretty face
Jean de La Fontaine (1621–95) French Poet, Short Story Writer

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 (1895–1979) American Catholic Religious Leader, Theologian

Humility is attentive patience.
Simone Weil (1909–1943) French Philosopher, Political Activist

Patience carries a lot of wait
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Jenny replied to this with a bitterness which might have surprized a judicious person, who had observed the tranquillity with which she bore all the affronts to her chastity; but her patience was perhaps tired out, for this is a virtue which is very apt to be fatigued by exercise.
Henry Fielding (1707–54) English Novelist, Dramatist

You are goodness and mercy and compassion and understanding. You are peace and joy and light. You are forgiveness and patience, strength and courage, a helper in time of need, a comforter in time of sorrow, a healer in time of injury, a teacher in times of confusion. You are the deepest wisdom and the highest truth; the greatest peace and the grandest love. You are these things. And in moments of your life you have known yourself to be these things. Choose now to know yourself as these things always.
Neale Donald Walsch (b.1943) American Spiritual Writer

To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.
Coventry Patmore (1823–96) English Poet, Critic

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.
Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus) (c.250–184 BCE) Roman Comic Playwright

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) British Children’s Books Writer, Short story, Novelist, Poet, Journalist

I have known twenty persevering girls to one patient one; but it is only the twenty-first one who can do her work, out and out, and enjoy it. For patience lies at the root of all pleasures as well as of all powers.
John Ruskin (1819–1900) English Writer, Art Critic

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 (1533–92) French Essayist

Little by little, through patience and repeated effort, the mind will become stilled in the Self.
The Bhagavad Gita Hindu Scripture

Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Edmund Burke (1729–97) British Philosopher, Statesman

Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) German Poet, Dramatist

Let this be understood, then, at starting; that the patient conquest of difficulties which rise in the regular and legitimate channels of business and enterprise is not only essential in securing the success which you seek but it is essential to that preparation of your mind, requisite for the enjoyment of your successes, and for retaining them when gained. So, day by day, and week by week; so month after month, and year after year, work on, and in that progress gain in strength and symmetry, and nerve and knowledge, that when success, patiently and bravely worked for, shall come, it may find you prepared to receive it and keep it.
Josiah Gilbert Holland (1819–81) American Editor, Novelist

Trust to God to weave your thread into the great web, though the pattern shows it not yet.
George MacDonald (1824–1905) Scottish Novelist, Lecturer, Poet

Patience: A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1913) American Short-story Writer, Journalist

A wise husband and a patient wife equal a peaceful home and a happy life.
Dutch Proverb

Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.
Soren Kierkegaard (1813–55) Danish Philosopher, Theologian

That’s the advantage of having lived 65 years. You don’t feel the need to be impatient any longer.
Thornton Wilder (1897–1975) American Novelist, Playwright

To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forego even ambition when the end is gained—who can say this is not greatness?
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–63) English Novelist

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