We’ve all heard it: Patience is a virtue. And the truth is, we couldn’t agree more.
Patience makes life, learning, relationships, and just about everything that much better (and easier).
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Patience is also a form of action. Auguste Rodin
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. 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
Great things happen a little at a time. Mark Black
Two things define you. Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything. Unknown
I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience. George-Louis de Buffon
Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow – that is patience. Unknown
Patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting. Joyce Meyer
All human wisdom is summed up in two words – wait and hope. Alexandre Dumas Père
Why is patience so important? Because it makes us pay attention. Paulo Coelho
Patience is passion tamed. Lyman Abbott
This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don’t get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can’t do anything, don’t get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it’s ready to come undone. You have to realize it’s going to be a long process and that you’ll work on things slowly, one at a time. Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
There’s no advantage to hurrying through life. Shikamaru Nara
Seek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls. Maya Angelou
Patience is the companion of wisdom. St. Augustine
Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day. A.A. Milne
Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind. David G. Allen
Infinite patience brings immediate results. Wayne Dyer
The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter. Paulo Coelho
The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. Bertrand Russell
Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Saint Francis De Sales
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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
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
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent. Isaac Newton
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young? Paul Sweeney
Patience can’t be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it. Eknath Easwaran
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Lao Tzu
What you seek is seeking you. Rumi
Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour. Ovid
Don’t get discouraged. It’s often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock. Unknown
Trust the timing of your life. Unknown
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
Never give up. Great things take time. Unknown
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. John Quincy Adams
The secret of patience is doing something else in the meanwhile. Unknown
Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit. Molière
Imagine that every person in the world is enlightened but you. They are all your teachers, each doing just the right things to help you learn perfect patience, perfect wisdom, perfect compassion. Buddha
In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair-mindedness, and gentleness with what is strange. Nietzsche
When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer. Corrie ten Boom
If you add a little to a little, and then do it again, soon that little shall be much. Hesiod
Paper has more patience than people. Anne Frank
Be patient and tough. Some day this pain will be useful to you. Ovid
Our patience will achieve more than our force. Edmund Burke
All’s well in the end, if only you’ve the patience to wait. Francois Rabelais
