When you are angry with your loved ones, friends, working partners, customers or others, do you end up with the outcome you wanted? Definitely not! Actually, impatience does nothing more than make the relationship between you and anyone else worse.
Usually we end up experiencing regret after we feel angry. The only solution to this is learning to cultivate our own patience. Maybe the following patience quotes can help you. You need to have a deep understanding and awareness of patience.
Patience does not require you to wait passively and do nothing. Instead, it need you to wait for the right time to do the right thing.
Read the following patience quotes carefully, and write down the ones that will inspire you to be more patient.
Patience Quotes
1.“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
2.“Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.” – Saadi
3.“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.” – Leo Tolstoy
4.“Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.” – Joyce Meyer
5.“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
6.“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
7.“When you encounter various trials, big or small, be full of joy. They’re opportunities to learn patience.” – Scott Curran
8.“Patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting.” – Unknown
9.“Trust the process. Your time is coming. Just do the work and the results will handle themselves.” – Tony Gaskins
10.“Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in your mind.” – David G. Allen
11.“Our patience will achieve more than our force.” – Edmund Burke
12.“Patience is a conquering virtue.” – Geoffrey Chaucer
13.“Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.” – A.A. Milne
14.“Patience, grasshopper,” said Maia. “Good things come to those who wait.” “I always thought that was ‘Good things come to those who do the wave,’” said Simon. “No wonder I’ve been so confused all my life.” – Cassandra Clare
15.“Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.” – Molière
16.“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.” – Paulo Coelho
17.“He that can have patience can have what he will.” – Benjamin Franklin
18.“Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is “timing”, it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles, and in the right way.” – Fulton J. Sheen
19.“Patience Is Not the Ability to Wait: Patience is not the ability to wait. Patience is to be calm no matter what happens, constantly take action to turn it to positive growth opportunities and have faith to believe that it will all work out in the end while you are waiting.” – Roy T. Bennett
20.“Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can’t go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.” – Margaret Atwood
21.“Why is patience so important?” “Because it makes us pay attention.” – Paulo Coelho
22.“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.” – Henri J.M. Nouwen
23.“Have patience, my friend, have patience; For Rome wasn’t built in a day! You wear yourself out for nothing in many and many a way! Why are you nervous and fretty When things do not move along fast; Why let yourself get excited Over things that will soon be past?” – Gertrude Tooley Buckingham
24.“Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.” – Michel de Montaigne
25.“Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.” – John Quincy Adams
26.“Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.” – George-Louis de Buffon
27.“Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.” – Carl Jung
28.“Patience and wisdom walk hand in hand, like two one-armed lovers.” – Jarod Kintz
29.“Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.” – Soren Kierkegaard
30.“Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.” – John Ruskin
31.“Patience can’t be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.” – Eknath Easwaran
32.“All in good time.” – Horace
33.“Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.” – Publilius Syrus
34.“At the bottom of patience, one finds heaven.” – Kanuri
35.“At the gate of patience there is no crowding.” – Moroccan
36.“Bear and forbear.” – Unknown
37.“By diligence and patience, the mouse bit in two the cable.” – Ben Franklin
38.“Don’t cross the bridge til you come to it.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
39.“God did not create hurry.” – Unknown
40.“Grain by grain a loaf, stone by stone, a castle.” – Yugoslavian
41.“Haste has no blessing.” – Unknown
42.“Hasty climbers have sudden falls.” – Robert Greene (See our 48 Laws of Power Quotes)
43.“One step at a time.” – Unknown
44.“Patience is a virtue.” – Unknown
45.“The salt of patience seasons everything.” – Unknown
46.“What may not be altered is made lighter by patience.” – Horace
47.”Learning patience can be a difficult experience, but once conquered you will find life is easier.” – Catherine Pulsifer
48.”Patience is very important in the process of becoming a published author, I tell you.” – Gina Duke
49.”Being a good teacher takes patience; being a good doctor also takes patience. In fact, if you want to excel in anything, master any skill, patience is an asset.” – Eknath Easwaran
50.“One of the paradoxes of life is that being impatient often makes it harder to achieve something. As with any skill, you get better at manifesting the more you practice.” – Simon Foster
51.”Stressors are everywhere. Each and every day, we run into situations that constantly test us, rob us of our patience, strip us of our sanity, impact our focus, and cause us to lose control of our days.” – Colleen Archer
52.”Things that are worth doing or having are not usually easy. You will experience a lot of resistance when you start living a simple life. The benefits of living a simple life are not immediate so be sure to have the patience to wait for the fruits of your efforts.” – Ryan Cooper
53.“Whether it’s marriage or business, patience is the first rule of success.” – William Feather
54.“No road is too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; and no honors are too distant for the man who prepares himself for them with patience.” – Jean de La Bruyère
55.“Patience is the art of hoping.” – Luc de Vaugenargues
56.“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
57.“The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.” – Arnold H. Glasow
58.“The greatest power is often simple patience.” – E. Joseph Cossman
59.“The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction, you have chosen.” – Ralph Marstonlliam
60.“Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.” – Hal Borland
61.“All human wisdom is summed up in two words – wait and hope.” – Alexandre Dumas Père
62.“Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow – that is patience.” – Unknown
63.“Patience is passion tamed.” – Lyman Abbott
64.“Just because you fail once doesn’t mean you’re gonna fail at everything.” – Marilyn Monroe
65.“I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.” – Abraham Lincoln
66.“Some people can never understand that you have to wait, even for the best of things, until the right time comes.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
67.“It will happen but it will take time.” – John Bowlby
68.“If a string is in a knot, Patience will untie it. Patience can do many things— Did you ever try it?” – Anna M. Pratt
69.“When the wait is long, it is usually worth waiting for.” – Tapan Ghosh
70.“Don’t rush, take your time, put a plan in motion. Take action with patience. Good things take time.” – Akiroq Brost
71.“Patience is an action and a skill to be cultivated. It actually solves more problems than most other actions.” – John Bruna
72.“The problem with patience is that we are not patient enough to learn it.” – Craig D. Lounsbrough
73.“Patience is real self-mastery.” – Richelle E. Goodrich
74.“Patience is not something that you keep; patience is something that you learn. How is patience learnt? By sitting with those who have patience and by observing those who have patience.” – Dada Bhagwan
75.“Patience is inversely proportional to the distance from the front of the queue.” – John Day
Use these quotes to make yourself more patient this week
Do not let your impatience destroy all the beauty of your life.
From now on, learn from the above patience quotes and practice them in real life. Once you have a certain understanding of patience, it will become easier to cultivate patience.
When you become patient, you will find that everything in your life will be smooth. People around you will smile at you, accept you and trust you.
Such a harmonious and beautiful living environment is our eternal pursuit. To help yourself focus, write down one of your favorite quotes that will remind you to be more patient. And read that quote each morning when you wake up.
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