Top 100 Patience Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Successful Investing takes time, discipline and patience. No matter how great the talent or effort, some things just take time: You can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.”

— Warren Buffett

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

53. “Life is a marathon, not a sprint; pace yourself accordingly.”

— Amby Burfoot

54. “When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.”

— Jacob August Riis

55. “By perseverance the snail reached the ark.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

56. “The very important thing you should have is patience.”

— Jack Ma

57. “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

58. “Be patient with yourself. Perfection comes not in this life, but in the next life. Don’t demand things that are unreasonable, but demand of yourself improvement. As you let the Lord help you through that, He will make the difference.”

— Russell M. Nelson

59. “I will be patient till even patience tires of my patience.”

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

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

— Chuck Noll

61. “Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.”

— Saint Francis de Sales

62. “To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.”

— Al-Ghazali

63. “Sabr is not remaining quiet and allowing anger to build up inside you. Sabr is to talk about what’s bothering you without losing control of your emotions.”

— Nouman Ali Khan

64. “Rome was not built in one day.”

— John Heywood

65. “Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude – these are everything.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

66. “Life’s a marathon, not a sprint.”

— Phillip C. McGraw

67. “Don’t you quit. You keep walking, you keep trying, there is help and happiness ahead. Some blessings come soon. Some come late. Some don’t come until heaven. But for those who embrace the gospel of Jesus Christ, they come. It will be alright in the end. Trust God and believe in Good Things to Come.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

68. “Nothing really worth having comes quickly and easily. If it did, I doubt that we would ever grow.”

— Eknath Easwaran

69. “Endurance is patience concentrated.”

— Thomas Carlyle

70. “Things take the time they take. Don’t worry.”

— Mary Oliver

71. “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

72. “God’s delays are not God’s denials.”

— Robert H. Schuller

73. “Don’t give up before the miracle happens.”

— Fannie Flagg

74. “Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.”

— Stephen R. Covey

75. “I did not succeed in life by intelligence. I succeeded because I have a long attention span.”

— Charlie Munger

76. “Time heals almost everything. Give time time.”

— Regina Brett

77. “Patience is of two kinds: patience over what pains you, and patience against what you covet.”

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

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

— Dale Carnegie

79. “You just stay patient, that’s all.”

— Kobe Bryant

80. “I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

81. “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

82. “Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them – every day begin the task anew.”

— Saint Francis de Sales

83. “Great investing requires a lot of delayed gratification.”

— Charlie Munger

84. “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

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

— William Feather

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

— Thomas Henry Huxley

87. “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

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

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Bertrand Russell

90. “A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.”

— Molière

91. “Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

92. “No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.”

— Lewis Carroll

93. “Patience is a fruit of the spirit that grows only under trial. It is useless to pray for patience. Well, actually I encourage you to pray for patience, but I’ll tell you what you’ll get TRIALS!”

— Joyce Meyer

94. “All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.”

— Franz Kafka

95. “If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.”

— Isaac Newton

96. “God, teach me to be patient, teach me to go slow.”

— Helen Steiner Rice

97. “He who was living is now dead We who were living are now dying With a little patience.”

— T. S. Eliot

98. “She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.”

— D. H. Lawrence

99. “Most people are too fretful; they worry too much. Success means being very patient, but aggressive when it’s time.”

— Charlie Munger

100. “Good things take time, as they should. We shouldn’t expect good things to happen overnight. Actually, getting something too easily or too soon can cheapen the outcome.”

— John Wooden