Patience Quotes

I understand that SPEED is an indispensable quality but I discovered lately that WAITING also works most times with even better results.

~ Amos Gideon Buba

Patience and Impatience are having tea discussing Time. The conversation goes on endlessly.

~ Natasha Tsakos

punishment had not been spared--with best results in patience and purification

~ George Macdonald

Take time to understand uncanny and bitter situations or else, you shall only end up creating yet another similar situation, situation after situation, time and again!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Patience is what is needed to see through any process of production.

~ Sunday Adelaja

It's through delayed gratification that patience comes.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Patience brings perseverance.

~ Sunday Adelaja

I love to close my eyes a moment and think of the land outside, white under the mingled snow and moonlight--the heaps of stones by the roadside white--snow in the furrows. Mon Dieu! How quiet and how patient!

~ Katherine Mansfield

Patience is a virtue as they say and listening is an exercise in patience.

~ Kaleb Kilton

I am a true believer of the three P’S- Purpose, perseverance and patience

~ Charmaine J. Forde

Patience is inversely proportional to the distance from the front of the queue.

~ John Day

Oftentimes I think it is far better to listen for an answer, rather than talk out of an effort to create one.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Patience is the highest asceticism.

~ Gautama Buddha

To love, we need to be sensitive to those around us, which is impossible if we are racing through life engrossed in all the things we need to do before sunset. In fact, I would go to the extent of saying that a person who is always late will find it difficult to love; he will be in too much of a hurry.

~ Eknath Easwaran

It would be easy to call it quits. Occasionally I have these moments, not often. There is nothing to do but sit still until they pass. Tantrums and passions I don't need, endurance is what I need. I have found that it is even possible to take a certain pleasure out of submission to necessity. That have I borne, this can I bear also.

~ Wallace Stegner

All good things comes to those who wait.

~ Violet Fane

To wait is to wisely resign myself to the fact that my ‘timetable’ is too often a ‘table’ with two legs that won’t stand up no matter how much ‘time’ I give it.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

He who has patience, evidently what he pursues must ensue, and come to pass. To every man, this is what he must cultivate above all other things.

~ Ndiritu Wahome

Allaah has not bestowed any blessing upon His slaves then taken it away and replaced it with patience, but what He has compensated them with is better than what He has taken away.

~ Umar Ibn ‘Abd Al-‘Azeez

Craving for the top of the mountain is a feeling to yearn for, an endurance we learn from.

~ Goitsemang Mvula

Time determines the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities, but God determines the time for the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities.

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Sorrow and strife comes to all persons. Mature people expect hardships and setbacks and patiently and determinedly work to accomplish their goals. Immature people lash out in anger and frustration when circumstances conspire to blunt their short-term objectives.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

True love takes time to find, but once it's found, the rest is eternal.

~ Anthony Liccione

The professional arms himself with patience, not only to give the stars time to align in his career, but to keep himself from flaming out in each individual work. He knows that any job, whether it’s a novel or a kitchen remodel, takes twice as long as he thinks and costs twice as much. He accepts that. He recognizes it as reality. The professional steels himself at the start of a project, reminding himself it is the Iditarod, not the sixty-yard dash. He conserves his energy. He prepares his mind for the long haul. He sustains himself with the knowledge that if he can just keep those huskies mushing, sooner or later the sled will pull in to Nome.

~ Steven Pressfield

Patience is an unfailing remedy for friction in personal relations. Even if a person has never won a beauty contest, has no money in the bank, can't even change a flat tire, if he or she has inexhaustible patience, then we will find that life with such a person will never grow stale.

~ Eknath Easwaran

Chi ti ama ti aspetta(Who loves waits for You).

~ Abc

In the modern world, human beings display little tolerance for waiting. We are addicted to fast food, instant messaging, and other conveniences of life. Patience is a lost virtue.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Patience can be a means of letting matters mature to a proper state for action, not just a way of letting time slip away.

~ Iain M. Banks

It's okay to be impatient. As long as you show your patience on the outside.

~ Lisa M. Cronkhite

Lay a golden egg.After you built a nest,You wait for a leg.And you land next. Now you hope and pray.Expect for the best. Go on with no delay. Get it right at last.

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

Umica ka hanuHOLD THE BREATHBe patient, don't give up.

~ Toni Polancy

Put your seed in the soil, no matter the dormancy period, with faith, there shall surely be germination

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Admire your offenders for they are never your offenders. They are only teachers in the class of forgiveness, tolerance and patience. How can you learn how to forgive when you have not been offended? How can you learn how to forgive seventy seven times seven when people have not offended you seventy seven times? Smile if you get offended, there is a lessons to learn!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

There is no exclusivity in the comparison of emotions attached to opposites This means that we can not appreciate feeling good when we have never felt bad. We can never appreciate comfort without being exposed to discomfort. let's make a determined effort every day to do uncomfortable things; because it's only when we push ourselves beyond our comfort limits that we get to uncover the abundant wealth of endurance within us, and get to tap into the true essence of comfort.

~ Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana

You're trying to eat grass that isn't there. Why don't you give it a chance to grow?

~ Richard Adams

It was March. The days of March creeping gustily on like something that man couldn't hinder and God wouldn't hurry.

~ Enid Bagnold

By Allah, how _thankful_ he is (_yes, madam, one moment, madam_), how _gladdened_ by the thought that Magid, Magid at least, will, in a matter of four hours, be flying east from this place and its demands, its constant cravings, this place where there exists neither patience nor pity, where the people want what they want _now_, right now (_We've been waiting twenty minutes for the vegetables_), expecting their lovers, their children, their friends, and even their gods to arrive at little cost and in little time, just as table ten expect their tandoori prawns. . . .

~ Zadie Smith

Help our response, Lord, not to be, WHAT are You doing?! Instead, give us the perspective to ask, Lord, what would You teach?

~ Brian Eshleman

Life is all about adjustments and love is, to be sensitive to the needs of the other than your own needs.

~ Henrietta Newton Martin

I've learnt not to draw my sword first to strike. That in no way portends I have the most feeble of minds or might . . . Probably, I'm waiting for the perfect moment to startle with a fatal strike.

~ Ufuoma Apoki