Patience Quotes

It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There's almost no such thing as ready. There's only now. And you may as well do it now. I mean, I say that confidently as if I'm about to go bungee jumping or something--I'm not. I'm not a crazed risk taker. But I do think that, generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.

~ Hugh Laurie

LIFE isn't about waiting for the storm to pass,it's about learning to DANCE in the rain.

~ Vivian Greene

I see it all through the lens of my camera—the flurry of movement, the venue staff in black T-shirts, giving orders into their headsets. As I take it all in, my mind weighs the texture, the composition, the possibility of each changing scene, and I struggle to hold back, to keep my finger from pressing too soon. That’s my biggest flaw as a photographer. I’m impatient—trigger-happy. I want the shot now, now, now, click, click, click, and if I could just wait a second more, the moment would really flourish.

~ Emery Lord

There are two things that turn a boy into a man, the size of his dick and the level of his patience.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Patience is the inclination to control the racing mind, which wants to jump ahead.

~ Balroop Singh

We applaud patience, but prefer it to be a virtue that others possess.

~ N.t. Wright

It was the waiting and watching that cost the most. For during that time he had to endure.

~ Orson Scott Card

Tolerance is not infinite patience, but slain patience; patience that has lost its hope and love and has thrown in the towel.

~ Criss Jami

Patience takes away lots of stress, regrets, & sleepless nights knowing that all is well at the end of the day if we just wait a little bit.

~ Assegid Habtewold

The trick to surviving an interrogation is patience. Don’t offer up anything. Don’t explain. Answer the question and only the question that is asked so you don’t accidentally put your head in a noose.

~ Laurie Halse Anderson

Flesh is willing, but the Soul requiresSisyphean patience for its song,Time, Hippocrates remarked, is shortand Art is long.

~ Charles Baudelaire

Hurry wounds a questioning soul.

~ Sarah Bessey

To me, the single biggest mark of the amateur writer is a sense of hurry.Hurry to finish a manuscript, hurry to edit it, hurry to publish it. It’s definitely possible to write a book in a month, leave it unedited, and watch it go off into the world and be declared a masterpiece. It happens every fifty years or so.For the rest of us, the single greatest ally we have is time. There’s no page of prose in existence that its author can’t improve after it’s been in a drawer for a week. The same is true on the macro level – every time I finish a story or a book, I try to put it away and forget it for as long as I can. When I return, its problems are often so obvious and easy to fix that I’m amazed I ever struggled with them.Amateur writers are usually desperate to be published, as soon as possible. And I understand that feeling – you just want it to start, your career, your next book, whatever. But I wonder how many self-published novels might have had a chance at getting bought, and finding more readers, if their authors had a bit more patience with them?

~ Charles Finch

Loving is effortless.. while Relationships, they require your time and patience... the two things we all lack..

~ Sanhita Baruah

Love never fails. Character never quits. And with patience and persistence, dreams do come true

~ Pete Maravich

Impatience is a form of unbelief. It's what we begin to feel when we start to doubt the wisdom of God's timing or the goodness of God's guidance. It springs up in our hearts when our plan is interrupted or shattered. It may be prompted by a long wait in a checkout line or a sudden blow that knocks out half our dreams. The opposite of impatience is not a glib denial of loss. It's a deepening, ripening, peaceful willingness to wait for God in the unplanned place of obedience, and to walk with God at the unplanned pace of obedience - to wait in his place, and go at his pace.

~ John Piper

Patience, Abigail. Patience.Abigail snorted. Patience, right. I am known for having a great handle on the Fruits of the Spirit.Interesting. I don't recall manipulation being a Biblical virtue.

~ Rachel Van Dyken

Don't give into him at all. Deny yourself. Because then your eyes will not be clouded by a madness that you cannot control, and then you will be able to learn to see him as he is. Do you understand?

~ Louis De Bernières

Everything comes at the right time, but if the right time is too late to be patient, go earlier before it becomes too late.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

You can’t think about how much you have left to do because that’s just one thought, one sad thought, that’ll make you bummed out all day long. Instead you’ve got to think about how much you’ve already done.

~ Catherine Gilbert Murdock

After all, if you really aren't trying to get anywhere else in this moment, patience takes care of itself.

~ Jon Kabat-Zinn

The first rule of discovery is to have brains and good luck. The second rule of discovery is to sit tight and wait till you get a bright idea.

~ George Pólya

Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.

~ Idries Shah

A novelist is essentially a person who covers distance through his patience, slowly, like an ant. A novelist impresses us not by his demonic and romantic vision, but by his patience.

~ Orhan Pamuk

It's a very old idea that patience leads to skills, of course - but it seems urgent now that we go further than this and think about patience itself as the skill to be learned.

~ Jennifer L. Roberts

Never give up on walking right. Something you have to remember is that God’s fulfilled promises take patience and faith! Having faith believes in not what you SEE but what you BELIEVE.

~ Chloe M. Gooden

Don't let the time convince you to quit, instead, convince the time to extend with patience.

~ Nathaniel E. Quimada

Don't worry about it. The right thing will come at the right time.

~ Danielle Steel

Sometimes we mistake patience for weakness, but the patient person often realizes that it's much more important for another person to discover his or her own gifts and shortcomings--the patient person doesn't feel a need to fix other people, and sometimes will let certain things slide until the other person recognizes the problems. Patient parents often let their kids make the same mistake two or three times because they know that a lesson learned oneself is almost always preferable to a lesson given to us by an authority figure like a parent.

~ Tom Walsh

People who pressure you usually deserve a “no. People who are patient with you usually deserve a “yes.

~ Alan Cohen

Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.

~ Sammy Davis Jr.

there are two spiritual tests: The patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be diappointed to what you have encounter.

~ Hafiz

Change is not always easy, but with patience and perseverance, we can find the good in change.

~ Kim Yannayon

Man hurries, God does not. That is why man's works are uncertain and maimed, while God's are flawless and sure. My eyes welling with tears, I vowed never to transgress this eternal law again. Like a tree I would be blasted by wind, struck by sun and rain, and would wait with confidence; the long-desired hour of flowering and fruit would come.

~ Nikos Kazantzakis

The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.

~ Francesco Guicciardini

Lightning strikes the earth and thunder heralds the doom but the earth bears it all in silence, teaching us that life may be harsh to us but we shouldn't be so to life.

~ Tista Ray

Culturally, one of the best arguments we can make is, wait and see.

~ Os Guinness

Patience is a virtue, just like parenting. We aren't born as parents, we learn how to be patent through our kids. From those lessons comes the wisdom to be patient!

~ Martin R. Lemieux

My world, created by glass and flame in the birth of your heat, implodes inside the shadowed walls of my heart. I swallowed the shards you gave me, your eyes on mine. Nothing is easy. I wait, feeling your hands holding the shattered pieces of my soul together in the molten, darkest recesses of the heart you claimed, unwilling to give up. I am inside you, waiting to come out.

~ Rachel Thompson

Tengo had a gift for such work. He was a born technician, possessing both the intense concentration of a bird sailing through the air in search of prey and the patience of a donkey hauling water, playing always by the rules of the game.

~ Haruki Murakami