His patient soul endures what Heay'n ordains,
But neither feels nor fears ideal pains.
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.
By time and toil we sever
What strength and rage could never.
Patience, when too often outraged, is converted into madness.
Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.
Or arm th' obdured breast
With stubborn patience as with triple steel.
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Like Patience gazing on kings' graves, and smiling
Extremity out of act.
It is hard! But what can not be removed, becomes lighter through patience.
Patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.
How poor are they that have not patience!
What wound did ever heal but by degrees?