Patience Quotes

ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.

~ Louisa May Alcott

The woman gestured to a seat and put on a patient face. An impatient sort of patient face, like an impatient face dressing up as a patient one for Halloween.

~ Shannon Hale

Crushed again!

~ W.s. Gilbert

The spider's web: She finds an innocuous corner in which to spin her web. The longer the web takes, the more fabulous its construction. She has no need to chase. She sits quietly, her patience a consummate force; she waits for her prey to come to her on their own, and then she ensnares them, injects them with venom, rendering them unable to escape. Spiders – so needed and yet so misunderstood.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

He felt the comfort of being part of an eternal cycle symbolized by the gold strips on either side of the black mourning band he wore. Light, dark, light. The dark was just an interval.

~ Jack Campbell

He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.

~ Bram Stoker

An eternity is any moment opened with patience.

~ Noah Benshea

She knew that she must sit quietly and patiently and, like her beloved butterflies, eventually he would come to rest.

~ Patricia O'sullivan

We need patient people who are able to endure the toughest disciplines.

~ Samael Aun Weor

Impatience is a particularly dangerous habit of the heart because everything worthwhile takes time. Good marriages take time. Spiritual maturity takes time. Financial stability takes time. Effective ministry takes time. Wisdom takes time. People who are not willing to take time cannot have any of the above.

~ Jim Berg

It is important to be Intuitive at this time and allow the natural course to show you the way to the next step.

~ Auliq Ice

Never was the victory of patience more complete than in the early church. The anvil broke the hammer by bearing all the blows that the hammer could place upon it. The patience of the saints was stronger than the cruelty of tyrants.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

She and Marie were Montreal girls, not trained to accompany heroes, or to hold out for dreams, but just to be patient.

~ Mavis Gallant

You were patient, but I worried that your very patience tempted Kevin to try it.

~ Lionel Shriver

Slow down. Take note of the present.

~ Avina Celeste

Sometimes the best choice is to wait.

~ K. Weikel

If you are willing to wait, you will get what you want.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The pleasure we found in working together made us exceptionally patient, it is much easier to strive for perfection when you are never bored.

~ Daniel Kahneman

Be patient, resentment will always reveal itself.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

It is the restraint of patience that yields the magnificent in life.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Time and time again one has seen, even in people not particularly given to reflection, that the best way of finding a solution is to let one’s thoughts drift until the right moment comes to pounce, like a tiger taking its prey by surprise.

~ José Saramago

He bit back a weary sigh and tried to remember strangling her would solve squat.

~ Kelly Moran

We were too greedy, grasping for immortality too soon. Perhaps if we had only been patient, content to wait, we would all have forever in the end.

~ Jessica Khoury

Impatience may be a virtue if you have to write for today's generation.

~ Haresh Sippy

If it comes easy, it will go fast.

~ Andrena Sawyer

having patience always gives you what you deserve.

~ Fatma Alfalasi

This life of ours can feel an awful lot like waiting.

~ Christina Baker Kline

I know how closely most of us tend to hold on to whatever cache of patience we've managed to amass over a lifetime and I appreciate your squandering some of your cherished stash here.

~ Carrie Fisher

Never be afraid to take a moment to think.

~ Kendall F. Person

When we allow ourselves to show some patience and take time to listen to the others, we may learn a lot about ourselves. Patience does not endure instant gratification, though, and self-knowledge may take a lifetime. (“I am on my own side, but I can listen “ )

~ Erik Pevernagie

A smile and patience are two things that can never be over applied.

~ Gary Rudz

Patience is a muscle you need to exercise or you will lose it.

~ Gary Rudz

Without delayed gratification, there is no patience.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Sometimes the real action in a conversation takes place in the pauses, when nothing at all is being said.

~ Rob Kendall

...'Better is the end of a matter than its beginning.'– Ecclesiastes 7:8

~ Jehovah

Patience guarantees project that will last for generations.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Delay gratification is what will give us patience and long suffering.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Life is not a one day journey and we must journey in life taking a step after a step, and considering the time such that we do not waist the time; knowing that in the end, we shall surely get to the end with a noble story after all our distinctive steps we took with a well balanced patience and impatience come to an end!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Have patience. You will eventually lose sight of what you truly deserve if you get too fixed on grabbing any stuff quickly. Things that last don't grow easy.

~ Tara Estacaan

Don’t be quick to get angry.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita