Quotations On Patience

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


A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
John Updike

Patience! why, it is the soul of peace; of all the virtues, it is nearest kin to heaven; it makes men look like gods. The best of men that ever wore earth about him was a sufferer,—a soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit; the first true gentleman that ever breathed. —Decker.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience, and we soon shall see them in their proper figures. —Addison.

If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives. —Madame de Sévigné.

Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius. —Buffon.

There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue. —Burke.

We usually learn to wait only when we have no longer anything to wait for. —Marie Ebner-Eschenbach.

No school is more necessary to children than patience, because either the will must be broken in childhood or the heart in old age. —Richter.

We have only to be patient, to pray, and to do His will, according to our present light and strength, and the growth of the soul will go on. The plant grows in the mist and under clouds as truly as under sunshine; so does the heavenly principle within. —Channing.

He that will have a cake of the wheat must needs tarry the grinding. —Shakespeare.

Patience is a nobler motion than any deed. —C.A. Bartol.

Patience is the guardian of faith, the preserver of peace, the cherisher of love, the teacher of humility; Patience governs the flesh, strengthens the spirit, sweetens the temper, stifles anger, extinguishes envy, subdues pride; she bridles the tongue, refrains the hand, tramples upon temptations, endures persecutions, consummates martyrdom; Patience produces unity in the church, loyalty in the State, harmony in families and societies; she comforts the poor and moderates the rich; she makes us humble in prosperity, cheerful in adversity, unmoved by calumny and reproach; she teaches us to forgive those who have injured us, and to be the first in asking forgiveness of those whom we have injured; she delights the faithful, and invites the unbelieving; she adorns the woman, and approves the man; is loved in a child, praised in a young man, admired in an old man; she is beautiful in either sex and every age. —Bishop Horne.

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

Patience is the ballast of the soul, that will keep it from rolling and tumbling in the greatest storms; and he that will venture out without this to make him sail even and steady will certainly make shipwreck and drown himself, first in the cares and sorrows of this world, and then in perdition. —Bishop Hopkins.

There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience. —La Bruyère.

As for goals, I don't set myself those anymore. I'm not one of these 'I must have achieved this and that by next year' kind of writers. I take things as they come and find that patience and persistence tend to win out in the end. Paul Kane

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience is the ruin of strength. —Colton.

If the wicked flourish and thou suffer, be not discouraged. They are fatted for destruction; thou art dieted for health. —Fuller.

Patience is sorrow's salve. —Churchill.

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else. 
George Savile



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