quotations about patience
Patience is sottish, and impatience does become a dog that's mad.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Antony and Cleopatra
Patience is the glue that binds together the true values of persistence, acceptance, and serenity.
AIDEN SISKO
The Ultimate Guide on Developing Patience
It is virtue to set the mark on a summit, and patience to climb toward it, however long or slowly.
JAMES VILA BLAKE
"Of Patience", Essays
Patience touches the quick of happiness, because if we endure not well we shall be wretched, and if we fail often (as who not, in greatest things?) and still push not on, however compelled to go slowly, we shall come to nothing.
JAMES VILA BLAKE
"Of Patience", Essays
Have patience. Everything is difficult before it is easy.
ANONYMOUS
I try to be patient. I really do. Many people I know are able to shrug it off, roll with the punches and take it in stride when service is abysmally slow, people are late, and someone uses 100 words to answer a question rather than the five or six that would suffice perfectly. Me? I tap my foot and sigh loudly, construct and fire off texts about the importance of being punctual, and on occasion I have reached into someone's mouth and literally torn the words out. The latter may be a slight exaggeration, but not by much. I am not a patient person.
PAM FERDERBAR
"Patience is a Virtue", Huffington Post, March 18, 2016
Patience is the courage of virtue.
HENRI BERNARDIN DE SAINT-PIERRE
Paul and Virginia
Patience is serenity in the face of insanity.
ANNE WILSON SCHAEF
Meditations for Living in Balance
Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Henry V
Patience is sorrow's salve.
CHARLES CHURCHILL
The Prophecy of Famine
I don't see why patience is listed among the virtues. I think it ought to be put on the index list. It ought to be considered a sin. The very word "patience" ought to be crossed out from any decent vocabulary. Let us analyze what patience is. How was the illusion formed that patience is a virtue? When we build something--a house or a play--we need great patience to adjust the parts, to perfect the whole. But it is not the patience itself which gives results. It is patience combined with creative effort. Let us call this combination creative patience. The effort without patience would be like meat without salt. But patience by itself is like salt without meat.
MARIA MORAVSKY
"Let Us Lose Our Patience", The Outlook, April 26, 1922
A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.
DUTCH PROVERB
The drawstring of the bag of patience is broken.
JAPANESE PROVERB
Patience is very effective when it comes to peacekeeping. It is the heartbeat in civil order, civility, and diplomacy.
AIDEN SISKO
The Ultimate Guide on Developing Patience
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
commemoration of the landing of the Pilgrims, December 22, 1802
Be patient toward all men.
BIBLE
I Thessalonians 5:14
A moment of patience in a moment of anger saves a thousand moments of regret.
ANONYMOUS
Think of the patience God has had for you and let it resonate to others. If you want a more patient world, let patience be your motto.
STEVE MARABOLI
Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Patience is bitter but its fruit is sweet.
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU
Julie, or, The New Heloise
Patience is passion tamed.
LYMAN ABBOTT
The Theology of an Evolutionist