Patience, a praise; forbearance is a treasure;
Sufferance, an angel is; a monster, rage.
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.
Patience is adherence to the ordinance of the Book (Quran) and the Sunnah.
How many wars have been averted by patience and persisting good will!
Everyone knows you need continuity and patience to get success, but not too many get it.
Patience, patience, when the heart is breaking;
With thy God there is no question-making.
Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
He ranged his tropes, and preached up patience;
Backed his opinion with quotations.
Take Christ in with you under your yoke, and let patience have her perfect work.
«History has a long patience, and wait centuries and centuries to condemn the defamation of men».