"He that can have patience can have what he will."
— Benjamin Franklin

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."
— Laozi (Tao Te Ching)

"Patience is bitter, but it's fruit is sweet."
— Aristotle

"I heard a preacher say recently that hope is a revolutionary patience; let me add that so is being a writer. Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up."
— Anne Lamott (Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life)

"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

"Time has no meaning,
Love will endure.."
— Jude Deveraux

"No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time."
— Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass)

"And so I wish for patience, and grace, and strength to just let him be happy. Mostly I pray for the strength to not make his life worse because of what I want. That's the toughest part, letting go, you know? That's the part of grace that really sucks."
— One Tree Hill (Peyton Sawyer)

"... Why is patience so important?"
"Because it makes us pay attention."
— Paulo Coelho

"Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence."
— Hal Borland

"Patience, he thought. So much of this was patience - waiting, and thinking and doing things right. So much of all this, so much of all living was patience and thinking."
— Gary Paulsen (Hatchet)

"She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte."
— D.H. Lawrence (Lady Chatterley's Lover)

".... have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and... try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language.... Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer."
— Rainer Maria Rilke (Letters to a Young Poet)

"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."
— John Quincy Adams

"If they gave him enough time--if they didn't rush him or push him too fast--he would get it. But nobody has time (61)."
— Daniel Keyes (Flowers for Algernon)

"It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
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— Elizabeth Taylor

"If you're serious about sanctification, you can expect to experience heart-wrenching moments that try your faith, your endurance, and your patience."
— Sheri L. Dew (If Life Were Easy, It Wouldn't Be Hard: And Other Reassuring Truths)

"The best teachers have showed me that things have to be done bit by bit. Nothing that means anything happens quickly--we only think it does. The motion of drawing back a bow and sending an arrow straight into a target takes only a split second, but it is a skill many years in the making. So it is with a life, anyone's life. I may list things that might be described as my accomplishments in these few pages, but they are only shadows of the larger truth, fragments separated from the whole cycle of becoming. And if I can tell an old-time story now about a man who is walking about, waudjoset ndatlokugan, a forest lodge man, alesakamigwi udlagwedewugan, it is because I spent many years walking about myself, listening to voices that came not just from the people but from animals and trees and stones."
— Joseph Bruchac

"“Patience never wants Wonder to enter the house: because Wonder is a wretched guest. It uses all of you but is not careful with what is most fragile or irreplaceable. If it breaks you, it shrugs and moves on. Without asking, Wonder often brings along dubious friends: doubt, jealousy, greed. Together they take over; rearrange the furniture in every one of your rooms for their own comfort. They speak odd languages but make no attempt to translate for you. They cook strange meals in your heart that leave odd tastes and smells. When they finally go are you happy or miserable? Patience is always left holding the broom.”"
— Jonathan Carroll (White Apples)

"Life it too short to deal with crazy people."
— Karen E. Quinones Miller

"Love does not cost anything. Kind words and deeds do not cost anything. The real beauty of the world is equal for everyone to see. It was given by God equally to all, without restrictions.

Everyone, was given a beautiful vehicle in which to express love to others. Feelings are free to express and give to ourselves and each other through our willingness to give and care.

What is complicated about this... Why have we made others feel they have to climb mountains and swim oceans in order to make a difference.

All we need to understand my friends, is that human life was given equally to us all, not partially but in totality.

The sun was given to all. It does not shine on the few. So, just has nature is indifferent to our station or situation, we need to know that we are all equal. We need to focus on the things that are constant and not place our values on things that can be blown away with the next, great, wind.

Value life in what ever house it dwells. For when it comes time that we are all stripped to bare bones before the divine and facing eternity, we will understand that the only law we were meant to follow, was to love ourselves and each other. Nothing more...nothing less."
— Carla Jo Masterson

"I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby)

"Even the best inborn potentialities for achievement do not render unnecessary patient and persistent practice."
— Ralph Alfred Habas (The Art of Self-Control)

"Our patience will achieve more than our force."
— Edmund Burke

"i would like to beg you, dear sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language""
— Rainer Maria Rilke

"Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit."
— Molière

""Miro, I'm so sorry. I always felt such pity for you humans because you could only think of one thing at a time and your memories were so imperfect and . . . now I realize that just getting through the day without killing somebody can be an achievement."

"It gets to be a habit. Most of us manage to keep our body count quite low. It's the neighborly way to live."
— Orson Scott Card (Children of the Mind)

"Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day."
— Winnie the Pooh

"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.
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— Fulton J. Sheen

"Patience is not a virtue.

It is an achievement."
— Vera Nazarian

"A jug fills drop by drop."
— The Buddha

"To accept what you are is to be content, and contentment is the greatest wealth. To work with patience is to gather power. To surrender to the Eternal flow is to be completely present."
— Vimalia McClure

"Nothing great is ever 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 first be time. Let it first blosson, then bear fruit, then ripen."
— Julian Louise Woodruff

"Prayer of an Anonymous Abbess:

Lord, thou knowest better than myself that I am growing older and will soon be old. Keep me from becoming too talkative, and especially from the unfortunate habit of thinking that I must say something on every subject and at every opportunity.

Release me from the idea that I must straighten out other peoples' affairs. With my immense treasure of experience and wisdom, it seems a pity not to let everybody partake of it. But thou knowest, Lord, that in the end I will need a few friends.

Keep me from the recital of endless details; give me wings to get to the point.

Grant me the patience to listen to the complaints of others; help me to endure them with charity. But seal my lips on my own aches and pains -- they increase with the increasing years and my inclination to recount them is also increasing.

I will not ask thee for improved memory, only for a little more humility and less self-assurance when my own memory doesn't agree with that of others. Teach me the glorious lesson that occasionally I may be wrong.

Keep me reasonably gentle. I do not have the ambition to become a saint -- it is so hard to live with some of them -- but a harsh old person is one of the devil's masterpieces.

Make me sympathetic without being sentimental, helpful but not bossy. Let me discover merits where I had not expected them, and talents in people whom I had not thought to possess any. And, Lord, give me the grace to tell them so.

Amen"
— Margot Benary-Isbert

"Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything."
— Rainer Maria Rilke

"When you've been tossed and driven like the mighty rushing wind; hold on to you sense of dignity, in the end you will be the one that comes out on the top."
— Barbara Hart

"There are those who discover they can leave behind destructive reactions and become patient as the earth, unmoved by fires of anger or fear, unshaken as a pillar, unperturbed as a clear and quiet pool."
— The Dhammapada

"Art is long. The artist must buckle himself with infinite patience. His ears must be deaf to the clamour of his insistent friends who would quicken his pace. His eyes must see naught but the vision beyond. He must await the season of fruitage without haste, without worldly ambitions, without vexation of the spirit. An inspiration is no more than a seed that must be planted and nourished. It gives growth as it grows to the artist, only as he watches and waits with his highest effort. "
— Albert Pinkham Ryder

"I have patience in all things – as far as the antechamber."
— Gustave Flaubert (Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour)

"Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you by the gazelles and by the does of the field:
Do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires. (Song of Songs 3:5)"
— Anonymous

"'You are the patient one, Mademoiselle,' said Poirot to Miss Debenham.

She shrugged her shoulders slightly. 'What else can one do?'

'You are a philosopher, Mademoiselle.'

'That implies a detached attitude. I think my attitude is more selfish. I have learned to save myself useless emotion.'"
— Agatha Christie (Murder on the Orient Express)