Top 50 Patience Quotes (2023 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

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

— Joyce Meyer

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

— Aristotle

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

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

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

— Lao Tzu

12. “Patience is a conquering virtue.”

— Geoffrey Chaucer

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

14. “Genius is eternal patience. ”

— Michelangelo

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 art 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

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

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

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

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. “Patience means self-suffering.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

32. “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

33. “Perfect love is perfectly patient.”

— Neal A. Maxwell

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

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

— Doug Larson

36. “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

37. “Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

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38. “Good things come to those who hustle.”

— Chuck Noll

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39. “When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.”

— Corrie ten Boom

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40. “Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

41. “Endurance is patience concentrated.”

— Thomas Carlyle

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42. “A waiting person is a patient person. The word patience means the willingness to stay where we are and live the situation out to the full in the belief that something hidden there will manifest itself to us.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

43. “In order to make friends you must first be friendly.”

— Dale Carnegie

44. “Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.”

— C.G. Jung

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45. “The fruit falls from the tree when it gets ripe. So wait for the time to come. Do not hurry. Moreover, no one has the right to make others miserable by his foolish acts. Wait, have patience, everything will come right in time.”

— Swami Vivekananda

46. “Whether it’s marriage of business, patience is the first rule of success.”

— William Feather

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47. “Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.”

— Thomas Henry Huxley

48. “Purity, perseverance, and energy - these three I want.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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49. “The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.”

— Bertrand Russell

50. “How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.”

— Elbert Hubbard