Patience Quotes

Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.

~ Margaret Atwood

Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

~ Margaret Thatcher

She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.

~ D.h. Lawrence

It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

~ Elizabeth Taylor

Waiting and hoping is a hard thing to do when you've already been waiting and hoping for almost as long as you can bear it.

~ Jenny Nimmo

It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you.

~ Charlotte Brontë

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

~ Hal Borland

Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Have the patience to wait! Be still and allow the mud to settle.

~ Lao Tzu

Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind.

~ David G. Allen

I’m saying that I can wait. For now. But when things get back to normal—assuming that ever happens—I want my shot. We can make each other happy, Faythe. I know it. And I’m done walking away from things I want just because they don’t come easily. You’re worth the work.

~ Rachel Vincent

He who can have patience can have what he will.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Just because you're an adult doesn't mean you're grown up. Growing up means being patient, holding your temper, cutting out the self-pity, and quitting with the righteous indignation.''Why do so many people seem to love righteous indignation?''Because if you can prove you're a victim, all rules are off. You can lash out at people. You don't have to be accountable for anything.

~ Brandon Stanton

Talent is a long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation.

~ Gustave Flaubert

Be worthy love, and love will come.

~ Louisa May Alcott

Life it too short to deal with crazy people.

~ Karen E. Quinones Miller

Patience is not passive resignation, nor is it failing to act because of our fears. Patience means active waiting and enduring. It means staying with something and doing all that we can - working, hoping, and exercising faith; bearing hardship with fortitude, even when the desires of our hearts are delayed. patience is not simply enduring; it is enduring well!Impatience, on the other hand, is a symptom of selfishness. It is a trait of the self-absorbed. It arises from the all too-prevalent condition called center of the universe syndrome, which leads people to believe that the world revolves around them and that all others are just supporting cast in the grand theater of mortality in which only they have the starring role.

~ Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Patience never wants Wonder to enter the house: because Wonder is a wretched guest. It uses all of you but is not careful with what is most fragile or irreplaceable. If it breaks you, it shrugs and moves on. Without asking, Wonder often brings along dubious friends: doubt, jealousy, greed. Together they take over; rearrange the furniture in every one of your rooms for their own comfort. They speak odd languages but make no attempt to translate for you. They cook strange meals in your heart that leave odd tastes and smells. When they finally go are you happy or miserable? Patience is always left holding the broom.

~ Jonathan Carroll

In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair-mindedness, and gentleness with what is strange.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them.

~ Marcus Aurelius

Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement.

~ Vera Nazarian

[She] lost her patience, a thing she was all too prone to misplacing.

~ Gail Carriger

I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Everything comes if a man will only wait.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

The enemy is the necessary condition for practicing patience.

~ Dalai Lama Xiv

Lark: You shouldn't yell at

~ Tamora Pierce

All the reasons you fell in love are still there, but perhaps buried under worries and responsibility. Find them again, then hang in there. Truly, the best is yet to come.

~ Laurie Paige

Bread – like real love – took time, cultivation, strong loving hands and patience. It lived, rising and growing to fruition only under the most perfect circumstances.

~ Melissa Hill

Cultivate your craft. Water it daily, pour some tender loving care into it, and watch it grow. Remember that a plant doesn’t sprout immediately. Be patient, and know that in life you will reap what you sow.

~ J.b. Mcgee

everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait . . . there is nothing stronger than these two: patience and time, they will do it all.

~ Leo Tolstoy

The work that God does in us when we wait is usually more important than the thing for which we wait!

~ Erwin W. Lutzer

So much of control is not authoritative action but mindful waiting.

~ Cameron Conaway

The word 'jihad' has nowhere been used in the Qur'an to mean war in the sense of launching an offensive. It is used rather to mean 'struggle'. the action most consistently called for in the Qur'an is the exercise of patience. (p. 7-8)

~ Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

Corpse Pose sounds like no big deal, right? Then what’s so difficult about this spiritualized snooze? Forget about getting your feet behind your head. Just try lying still for ten minutes. With nothing left to do, you’re finally forced to come face to face with yourself.

~ Edward Vilga

You are the patient one, Mademoiselle,' said Poirot to Miss Debenham.She shrugged her shoulders slightly. 'What else can one do?'You are a philosopher, Mademoiselle.'That implies a detached attitude. I think my attitude is more selfish. I have learned to save myself useless emotion.

~ Agatha Christie

Silence is victory and patience is glory.Let silence speak our identityand let patience keep our dignity.

~ Aram Seriteratai

Tolerance is nothing more than patience with boundaries.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Waiting is a form of passive persistence.

~ Ogwo David Emenike

The panic disappeared under those soothing old fingers and the breathing slowed down and stopped hurting the chest as if a fox was caught in it, and then at last Mr. Kroger began to lecture the boy as he used to, Pablo, he murmured, don't ever be so afraid of being lonely that you forget to be careful. Don't forget that you will find it sometimes but other times you won't be lucky, and those are the times when you have got to be patient, since patience is what you must have when you don't have luck. (The Mysteries of the Joy Rio)

~ Tennessee Williams

I have patience in all things – as far as the antechamber.

~ Gustave Flaubert