Top 100 Patience Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Patience is not passive waiting. Patience is active acceptance of the process required to attain your goals and dreams.”

— Ray Davis

2. “The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”

— Leo Tolstoy

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3. “Patience is not the ability to wait but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting.”

— Joyce Meyer

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4. “Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”

— Aristotle

5. “He that can have patience can have what he will.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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6. “Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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7. “Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”

— Molière

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8. “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 mean less.”

— Mother Teresa

9. “Our patience will achieve more than our force.”

— Edmund Burke

10. “Do you have the patience to wait until your mud settles and the water is clear?”

— Lao Tzu

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11. “I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.”

— Lao Tzu

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12. “Patience is a conquering virtue.”

— Geoffrey Chaucer

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13. “If you can cultivate the right attitude, your enemies are your best spiritual teachers because their presence provides you with the opportunity to enhance and develop tolerance, patience and understanding.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

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14. “Genius is eternal patience. ”

— Michelangelo

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

— Hal Borland

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16. “Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.”

— A. A. Milne

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17. “There are two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.”

— Franz Kafka

18. “Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

19. “The strongest of all warriors are these two – Time and Patience.”

— Leo Tolstoy

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20. “It has been my observation in life that, if one will only exercise the patience to wait, his wants are likely to be filled.”

— Calvin Coolidge

21. “To lose patience is to lose the battle.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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22. “Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.”

— Friedrich Schiller

23. “If you have infinite patience and perseverance, success is bound to come. No mistake in that.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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24. “Patience is the companion of wisdom.”

— Saint Augustine

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25. “Patience is also a form of action.”

— Auguste Rodin

26. “Take up an idea, devote yourself to it, struggle on in patience, and the sun will rise for you.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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27. “Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.”

— Saadi

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28. “Patience and time do more than strength or passion.”

— Jean de La Fontaine

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29. “Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is “timing” it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

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30. “Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow – that is patience. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”

— Leo Tolstoy

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31. “No great thing is created suddenly.”

— Epictetus

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32. “A jug fills drop by drop.”

— Buddha

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33. “Patience means self-suffering.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

34. “Practice patience; it is the essence of praise. Have patience, for that is true worship. No other worship is worth as much. Have patience; patience is the key to all relief.”

— Rumi

35. “God’s timing is always perfect. Trust His delays. He’s got you.”

— Tony Evans

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36. “A moment of patience in a moment of anger prevents a thousand moments of regret.”

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

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37. “Be patient; patience is a pillar of faith.”

— Umar

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38. “I will be patient, until even patience tires of my patience.”

— Imam Ali

39. “Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.”

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

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40. “The real secret of patience is to find something to do in the meantime.”

— Doug Larson

41. “It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.”

— Julius Caesar

42. “If you pray about it don’t worry about it. If you’re going to worry about it don’t pray about it.”

— Steve Harvey

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43. “The waiting itself is beneficial to us: it tries faith, exercises patience, trains submission, and endears the blessing when it comes.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

44. “Smile, breathe and go slowly.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

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45. “Don’t cross the bridge til you come to it.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

46. “Slow progress is better than no progress.”

— Anonymous

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47. “We must let patience have its perfect work, remembering that there are precious promises in the Scriptures for those who wait upon the Lord.”

— Ellen G. White

48. “You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.”

— Warren Buffett

49. “Perfect love is perfectly patient.”

— Neal A. Maxwell

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50. “The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term, is the indispensable prerequisite for success.”

— Brian Tracy

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