Patience Quotes
Counting entries, Shakespeare comes first, followed by Swami Vivekananda, Ali, Longfellow and James Richardson. Two sourced lines cover the territory. Tolstoy’s War and Peace (1865) says everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait; Bierce, in 1911, defines patience as a minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.
Flagged: “Patience is a remedy for every sorrow,” credited to Publilius Syrus; a remark about not having the patience to check out what is happening in music, theater and science, credited to Jimi Hendrix, both disputed; and a line about the marvel of all history being the patience with which people submit to burdens, credited to George Washington and marked misattributed.
The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.
Endurance is the crowning quality,
And patience all the passion of great hearts.
The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned.
There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.
The worst speak something good; if all want sense,
God takes a text, and preacheth Pa-ti-ence.
Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.
Have patience and endure; this unhappiness will one day be beneficial.