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.
It demanded a lot of patience and I didn’t have it at the time.
Such patience have the heroes who begin,
Sailing the first toward lands which others win.
A moment of patience in the moment of anger prevents thousands of moments of regret.
Patience is of two kinds: patience over what pains you, and patience against what you covet.
Take up an idea, devote yourself to it, struggle on in patience, and the sun will rise for you.
Woman has suffered for eons, and that has given her infinite patience and infinite perseverance.
"Patience is not passivity; it is aggressiveness without anxiety."
Meaningful development requires patience, planning, and consistent execution.
I find it constantly reinforces in me patience and acceptance.