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.
Of all the schools of patience and lucidity, creation is the most effective.
Those problems will be solved, with patience, good will, and determination.
When God's Spirit descends, then Patience accompanies Him indivisibly.
Patience is not very different from courage. It just takes longer.
If life is a test, where's your patience? How can you tell us that you were not blessed?
To get fully cured one needs patience. The moon moves slowly but by daybreak it crosses the sky.
The mind advances only when it has the patience to go in circles, in other words, to deepen.
Purity, patience, and perseverance are the three essentials to success and, above all, love.