Patience should not even be a virtue. It should have been like an organ, but god sometimes like to play jokes on us, and didn’t give patience to everybody but just a select few. Some people are just so cool, and patient, while most of us can’t even wait in line for security check in, even though the security check is being done for the safety of us. But like most virtue, patience is something we can learn to inculcate. We can make it a habit with the right amount of practice. Here are some quotes on patience that might help you learn to be more patient.
One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life.
~Chinese Proverb
We chose this old Chinese proverb to drive home its importance.
The fates have given mankind a patient soul.
~Homer
Patience makes a women beautiful in middle age.
~Elliot Paul
All of us should actually learn this patience quote by heart.
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
~Helen Keller
The obstacles, and problems that we face in the world teach us great lessons in patience. This is another of Hellen Keller’s inspirational quotes about patience.
The principle part of faith is patience.
~George MacDonald
We also have some Faith quotes.
All human wisdom is summed up in two words – wait and hope.
~Alexandre Dumas Père
Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it’s cowardice.
~George Jackson
This is a patience quotes of another kind. Sometimes, we can;t be too patient with some people.
Patience is also a form of action.
~Auguste Rodin
Just because you are being patient, doesn’t mean you are not doing anything. Sometimes it takes a lot more effort to be quite than act.
Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow – that is patience.
~Unknown Author
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
~Franz Kafka
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
~Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Just as a Hunter must lie in wait till the quarry comes about, sometimes as long as more than a day.
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
~St. Augustine
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
~John Quincy Adams
It is very strange that the years teach us patience – that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
~Elizabeth Taylor
He that can have Patience, can have what he will.
~Benjamin Franklin
This is one of the best quotes about patience.
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Patience and fortitude conquer all things.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.
~George-Louis de Buffon
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
~Edmund Burke
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
~Franklin P. Jones
Patience is passion tamed.
~Lyman Abbott
A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.
~Dutch Proverb
Patience: A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.
~Ambrose Bierce
Patience is a virtue, Possess it if you can, Seldom found in woman, Never found in man
~Unknown Author
Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.
~Lord Chesterfield
Patience is the greatest of all virtues.
~Cato the Elder
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.
~Arnold H. Glasgow
Beware the fury of a patient man.
~John Dryden
The secret of patience is doing something else in the meanwhile.
~Unknown Author
Patience is the ability to count down before you blast off.
~Author Unknown
Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
~Barbara Johnson
Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.
~Mac McCleary
Never run after a bus or a man. There will always be another one.
~Unknown Author
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?
~Paul Sweeney
All good things come to he who waits
~Proverb
What are your favorite quotes about patience?
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