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.
"There is no gift better and more comprehensive than patience (sabr)."
In Egypt, all dreams can come true; it needs patience, perseverance, and partnership.
Lustful desires are fatal illnesses, and the best cure for them is acquiring patience against them.
Those who are too slow to be intelligent deserve our patience, those who are too quick, our pity.
The skill I was learning was a crucial one, the patience to read things I could not yet understand.