Patience Quotes

Do not be deceived! The busiest people harbor the greatest weariness, their restlessness is weakness--they no longer have the capacity for waiting and idleness.

Think on this doctrine, - that reasoning beings were created for one another's sake; that to be patient is a branch of justice, and that men sin without intending it.

Like every beginner, I have thought you could beat, pummel and thrash an idea into existence. Under such treatment, of course, any decent idea folds up its paws, turns on its back, fixes its eyes on eternity, and dies.

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

The stock market is a wonderfully efficient mechanism for transferring wealth from the impatient to the patient.

Many people think that patience is a sign of weakness.I think this is a mistake. It is anger that is a sign ofweakness, whereas patience is a sign of strength

Do the best you can do and wait the results in peace.

Wisdom always waits for the right time to act, while emotion always pushes for action right now!

There are several things I think I would have done if I had the chance again. I would have been a little more patient about getting out into the world. I would have seen to it that I had a more formal education. I would have become an accomplished mu

Purity, patience and perseverance overcome all obstacles. All great things must of necessity be slow.

All things come to him who waits - provided he knows what he is waiting for.

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

Take time for all things.

Swaraj is a hardy tree of patient growth.

Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them.

Bring me a constant woman to her husband, One that ne'er dream'd a joy beyond his pleasure, And to that woman, when she has done most, Yet will I add an honour-a great patience.

All want power, but few will wait to gain it for themselves.

For some of us, watching a miniseries that lasts longer than most marriages is not easy.

Everything comes to those who hustle while they wait.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.

The things I've done in my life have required a lot of yearsof work before they took off.

Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief

Great talents ripen late; the highest notes are hard to hear.

When I was a student, I studied philosophy and religion. I talked about being patient. Some people say I was too hopeful, too optimistic, but you have to be optimistic just in keeping with the philosophy of non-violence.

Be patient and sympathetic with the type of mind that cuts a poor figure in examinations. It may, in the long examination which life sets us, come out in the end in better shape than the glib and ready reproducer, its passions being deeper, its purposes more worthy, its combining power less commonplace, and its total mental output consequently more important.

Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.

You only need sit still long enough in some attractive spot in the woods that all its inhabitants may exhibit themselves to you by turns.

ROSS You must have patience, madam. LADY MACDUFF He had none: His flight was madness: when our actions do not, Our fears do make us traitors.

When I planted my pain in the field of patience it bore fruit of happiness.

Justice limps along, but gets there all the same.

Everything comes too late for those who only wait.

Be patient, for it is from doubt that knowledge is born.

Do you know how the naturalist learns all the secrets of the forest, of plants, of birds, of beasts, of reptiles, of fishes, of the rivers and the sea? When he goes into the woods the birds fly before him and he finds none; when he goes to the river bank, the fish and the reptile swim away and leave him alone. His secret is patience; he sits down, and sits still; he is a statue; he is a log.

The day is committed to error and floundering; success and achievement are matters of long range.

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.

My parents always told me I could do anything, but never told me how long it would take

Isn't it a pleasure to study and practice what you have learned? Isn't it also great when friends visit from distant places? If one remains not annoyed when he is not understood by people around him, isn't he a sage?

I cook every chance in my pot. And only when it is cooked through do I welcome it as my food.

Violent fires soon burn out themselves, small showers last long, but sudden storms are short; he tires betimes that spurs too fast.

I love you, Katie. You might not be ready to say those words now, and maybe you'll never be able to say them, but that doesn't change how I feel about you.

Investors... can't pick stocks that are better than average. Stocks are a good thing to own over time. There's only two things you can do wrong: You can buy the wrong ones, and you can buy or sell them at the wrong time. And the truth is you never need to sell them.

All human power is a compound of time and patience.

Brisk talkers are usually slow thinkers. There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate. If you are civil to the voluble they will abuse your patience; if brusque, your character.

Love is like a flower - you have to let it grow.

The worst is that the very hardest thinking will not bring thoughts. They must come like good children of God and cry, "Here we are." You expend effort and energy thinking hard. Then, after you have given up, they come sauntering in with their hands in their pockets. If the effort had not been made to open the door, however, who knows when they could have come.

You can hardly convince a man of an error in a lifetime, but must content yourself with the reflection that the progress of science is slow. If he is not convinced, his grandchildren may be.

To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation - is peculiarly appropriate to geniune friendship.

Do not wish for quick results, nor look for small advantages. If you seek quick results, you will not reach the ultimate goal. If you are led astray by small advantages, you will never accomplish great things.

Delay is preferable to error.

It is sad that today many times people give up in the hard times and never get to enjoy the fruit of all their labor.

Do not lose heart, even if you must wait a bit before finding the right thing. Be prepared for disappointment also, but do not abandon the quest.

By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.

He is not well bred, that cannot bear ill breeding in others

Details matter, it's worth waiting to get it right.

Tell me, how do you cope so calmlyWith crazy youth's arrogant way?Indeed, youth would be insufferable,Had I myself not also been insufferable.

There live a great man named Joewho was belittled by a loudmouth foe.While his rival would taunt and teaseJoe silently bore the stings.And then fought like gladiator in the ring.

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

The challenge of statesmanship is to have the vision to dream of a better, safer world and the courage, persistence, and patience to turn that dream into reality.

You could be somewhere where the mail was delayed three weeks and do just fine investing.