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.
Good investing requires a weird combination of patience and aggression.
There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind can not find some solace for it.
It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.
He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding.
The disciples of a patient Saviour should be patient themselves.
Every one ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.
But the waiting time, my brothers,
Is the hardest time of all.