quotations about patience
The gods have given unyielding patience as a medicine for incurable evils.
ARCHILOCHUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
Patience is like acceptance. One cannot push the natural unfolding of experience and change. Patience involves opening up to experience in every moment as it arises and giving our minds the space to be aware of the experience.
MALCOLM HUXTER
Healing the Heart and Mind with Mindfulness
Patience is cultivated in the storms of your own heart and mind.
CHRISTINA FELDMAN
Compassion
Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement.
VERA NAZARIAN
The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
Patience is not merely waiting or code for inaction. It builds on and appreciates each step of progress.
EDITORIAL BOARD
The Christian Science Monitor, March 30, 2016
He who wanteth patience is like a man who standeth trembling in the field without his armor, because everyone can strike him, and he can strike none.
HORACE SMITH
attributed, Day's Collacon
Patience is an important mechanism for the renewal of our strength.
ABDUL K. SESAY
Remedies for Positive Living
Patience is, therefore, the faculty of enduring a painful sensation, and yet looking confidently and steadily to the period when that sensation shall cease.
WILLIAM PINNOCK
The Guide to Knowledge
Patience is God's nature.
TERTULLIAN
Of Patience
Patience is a plaister for all sores.
PERSIAN PROVERB
Patience has tender feet.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
Patience is the analogue of God's serenity.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
his last speech, delivered in response to a serenade at the White House, April 11, 1865
The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.
HORACE BUSHNELL
The New Life
Patience is a bitter plant, but it has sweet fruit.
GERMAN PROVERB
Inner peace is impossible without patience. Wisdom requires patience. Spiritual growth implies the mastery of patience. Patience allows the unfolding of destiny to proceed at its own unhurried pace.
BRIAN L. WEISS
Muchas Vidas, Muchas Maestros
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
Beware the fury of a patient man.
JOHN DRYDEN
Absalom and Achitophel
The wisdom and the theory of patience are very simple; for patience is a pure quiet; but impatience is a strong emotion, and therefore something that has to be borne or carried. Now, if we have a burden to lift, and add thereto impatience, what do we but add weight to weight?
JAMES VILA BLAKE
"Of Patience", Essays
I hate patience. Slows everything down.
J. D. ROBB
Witness in Death