Top 60 Patience Quotes That You Should Know

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Patience is a virtue; however, it is something that can sometimes be very hard to have. With that in mind, check out the top 60 patience quotes to help you out.

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#60 – 50. Patience Quotes

60. “Beware the fury of a patient man.” John Dryden

59. First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win. Mahatma Gandhi

58. Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work. Peter Marshall

57. One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life. Chinese proverb

56. “All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.” Thomas Fuller

55. Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. May Sarton

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

53. “Patience attracts happiness; it brings near that which is far.” Swahili Proverb

52. “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

51. “When you encounter various trials, big or small, be full of joy. They’re opportunities to learn patience.” Scott Curran

50. Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance. Virgil

#49 – 40. Patience Quotes

49. It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer. Albert Einstein

48. “All great achievements require time.” Maya Angelou

47. 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

46. “There will be a time when loud-mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self destruct. It never fails.” Richard Rybolt

45. “Our patience will achieve more than our force.” Edmund Burke

44. “The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.” Leo Tolstoy

43. All human wisdom is summed up in two words – wait and hope. Alexandre Dumas

42. Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything. Rainer Maria Rilke

41. “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

40. A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else. George Savile

#39 – 30. Patience Quotes

39. “He that can have patience can have what he will.” Benjamin Franklin

38. “Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in your mind.” David G. Allen

37. Patience and fortitude conquer all things. Ralph Waldo Emerson

36. “Patience is a conquering virtue.” Geoffrey Chaucer

35. “I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.” Margaret Thatcher

34. You usually have to wait for that which is worth waiting for. Craig Bruce

33. Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day. A. Milne (Winnie The Pooh)

32. “To lose patience is to lose the battle.” Mahatma Gandhi

31. Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

30. “Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it’s cowardice.” George Jackson

#29 – 20. Patience Quotes

29. “The lord is wonderfully good to those who wait for him and seek him.” Lamentations 3:25 The Bible

28. “If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.” Isaac Newton

27. “Trust the process. Your time is coming. Just do the work and the results will handle themselves.” Tony Gaskins

26. Just keep going when it’s tough. Just keep going when it’s long. Maxime Lagacé

25. “My dad said to me – Work hard and be patient. It was the best advice he ever gave me. You have to put the hours in.” Simon Cowell

24. “Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.” Thomas Jefferson

23. With love and patience, nothing is impossible. Daisaku Ikeda

22. Indeed, this life is a test. It is a test of many things – of our convictions and priorities, our faith and our faithfulness, our patience and our resilience, and in the end, our ultimate desires. Sheri L. Dew

21. Change is slow and gradual. It requires hard work, a bit of luck, a fair amount of self-sacrifice, and a lot of patience. Robert Greene

20. Patience is the key to contentment. The Prophet Muhammad

#19 – 10. Patience Quotes

19. Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. Søren Kierkegaard

18. 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

17. There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient. Sivananda Saraswati

16. Maybe that’s why life is so precious. No rewind or fast forward… just patience and faith. Cristina Marrero

15. Slow and steady wins the race. Aesop

14. “The secret of patience is to do something else in the meantime.” Croft M. Pentz

13. Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. Lao Tzu

12. Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come. Robert H. Schuller

11. “Patience, persistence, and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.” Napoleon Hill

10. “Patience makes lighter What sorrow may not heal.” Horace