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.
Genius does not only require superior knowledge and skill, but also superior patience.
Boz, who had no patience with Science, always confused north and south.
I believe it will take time to find a solution to the problem. Thus we must have patience.
Patience is the only honest muse. In writing, in painting, and especially in photography.
I'm beginning to lose patience
With my personal relations:
They are not deep,
And they are not cheap.