Patience Quotes

2415 Patience quotes by 1402 unique authors

God know that a mother need fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the… — Phyllis McGinley
For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity. God keep me from ever… — Herman Melville
The Lord did strengthen them that they could bear up their burdens with ease, and they did submit cheerfully and with patience to all the… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
Novelists have, on the average, about the same IQs as the cosmetic consultants at Bloomingdale’s department store. Our power is patience. We have discovered that… — Kurt Vonnegut
Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything. — Rainer Maria Rilke
A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their… — Thomas Jefferson
With thought, patience, and discrimination, book passion becomes the signature of a person's character. — Nicholas A. Basbanes
Because paper has more patience than people. — Anne Frank
Perhaps the greatest charity comes when we are kind to each other, when we don’t judge or categorize someone else, when we simply give each… — Marvin J. Ashton
If we could look into each other’s hearts and understand the unique challenges each of us faces, I think we would treat each other much… — Marvin J. Ashton
nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time. — Neil Gaiman
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. — Josh Billings
We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity. — Malcolm X
The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion, patience, tolerance, humility, and forgiveness. — Dalai Lama
Have no friends not equal to yourself. — Confucius
Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight. — Helen Keller
Without patience, we will learn less in life. We will see less. We will feel less. We will hear less. Ironically, rush and more usually… — Mother Teresa
Q: What’s hard for you? A: Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination… — Tom Waits
...trust in Creation which is made fresh daily and doesn’t suffer in translation. This God does not work in especially mysterious ways. The sun here… — Barbara Kingsolver
Patience is...clearly not fatalistic, shoulder-shrugging resignation. It is the acceptance of a divine rhythm to life; it is obedience prolonged. Patience stoutly resists pulling up… — Neal A. Maxwell
Patience and boredom are closely related. Boredom, a certain kind of boredom, is really impatience. You don't like the way things are, they aren't interesting… — Bertrand Russell
It's an odd feeling-farewell-there is some envy in it. Men go off to be tested for courage and if we're tested at all, it's for… — Isak Dinesen
It wasn't his, it wasn't my fault, we both had nothing except patience, but Death has none. I saw him come (how meanly!) and I… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger. Instead of getting angry nurture a… — Dalai Lama

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