Friedrich Nietzsche on Patience Quotes

"Patience is the virtue of those who know they have a future; the desperate are always in a hurry."

"The maturing of the fruit is a quiet process; the ripening of the spirit is an even quieter one."

"I love him who does not hold back a drop of spirit for himself; he has the patience to give everything away."

"One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one has made; one must have a long patience to fulfill them."

"What does your conscience say? — 'You shall become the person you are.'"

"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book—what others do not say in a whole book."

"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."

"The slow arrow of beauty. The noblest kind of beauty is that which does not carry us away at first, but slowly sinks in."

"We are still not at the end; we must have the patience to continue our wandering through the desert of the soul."

"One must learn to wait for the right moment as the predator waits; this is the strength of the will."

"In mountains of truth, you never climb in vain."

"The spirit of gravity is only overcome by those who have learned the patience of the dancer."

"The spirit that seeks truth must be able to endure the long winter of the soul without losing hope."

"All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity."

"One must learn to sit still and wait for the spirit to move; this is the hardest discipline of all."

"Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual."

"The spirit's patience.—The spirit that is sure of itself does not hurry; it allows its thoughts to ripen and does not force the season."

"To endure the tension of a long-held bow—that is the mark of a superior spirit."

"To become what one is, one must not have the faintest idea what one is; this ignorance requires a long patience."

"Do not be in a hurry to reach the peak; the view from the slope is also part of the mountain's wisdom."

"One must have the courage to be patient with the chaos within oneself to give birth to a dancing star."

"One must learn to see, one must learn to think... the goal in all three is a noble culture which requires long discipline."

"I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you."

"Slow is the experience of all deep wells: long must they wait until they know what fell into their depths."

"Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful."

"Let us be careful! We are like a field that needs to lie fallow for a long time before it can bear fruit again."

"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how."

"Everything worth while has begun by being invisible for a long time; the creator must endure the invisibility."

"Everything absolute belongs to pathology."

"The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others."

"I have the patience of a stone, provided that I am allowed to remain in my own element."

"To be a philosopher is to be a master of slowness; we must learn to read ourselves slowly."

"Greatness of soul is inseparable from cognitive patience and the ability to endure the long silence of growth."