Patience Quotes

"Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird."

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."

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

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience."

"Impatience with actions, patience with results."

"The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter."

"Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering."

"Macro patience, micro speed."

"We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world."

"The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience."

"Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time."

"Our patience will achieve more than our force."

"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."

"No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen."

"Patience is not passive, on the contrary, it is concentrated strength."

"The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient."

"Patience is the key to contentment."

"To lose patience is to lose the battle."

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

"Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves."

"Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day."

"Genius is eternal patience."

"Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand."

"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."

"The greatest remedy for anger is delay."

"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."

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

"Patience is the companion of wisdom."

"Step by step walk the thousand-mile road."

"A mind filled with turmoil cannot be cleared by force. Like a jar of muddy water, you must leave it alone, and clarity will return on its own accord."

"He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious."