1. One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life. -Chinese Proverb
2. When it comes to patience, we don’t have to change old habits; we can build better ones. -Sue Bender
3. To lose patience is to lose the battle. -Mahatma Gandhi
4. I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end. -Margaret Thatcher
5. Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown. -Soren Kierkegaard
6. Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance. -Virgil
7. If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought. -Isaac Newton
8. How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success. -Elbert Hubbard
9. He that can have patience can have what he will. -Benjamin Franklin
10. 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
11. 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
12. An alternative to love is not hate but patience. -Santosh Kalwar
13. Nature never rushes, yet everything gets done. -Lao Tzu
14. Don’t try to rush things: for the cup to run over, it must first be filled. -Antonio Machado
15. Knowing trees, I came to realize, understand and appreciate the act of patience. -Ogwo David Emenike
16. So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting. -Sinclair Lewis
17. Learning patience can be a difficult experience, but once conquered, you will find life is easier. -Catherine Pulsifer
18. Patience is the best remedy for every trouble. -Plautus
19. Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. -Hal Borland
20. Think of the patience God has had for you and let it resonate to others. If you want a more patient world, let patience be your motto. -Steve Maraboli
21. It is very strange…that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting. -Elizabeth Taylor
22. Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. -John Quincy Adams
23. Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane. -Criss Jami
24. I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. -Lao Tzu
25. One minute of patience, ten years of peace. -Greek Proverb
26. Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious. -Philips Brooks
27. Patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting. -Unknown
28. With love and patience, nothing is impossible. -Daisaku Ikeda
29. Two things define you: your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything. -George Bernard Shaw
30. Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day. -A.A. Milne
31. Your least favorite virtue, or nominee for the most overrated one? Faith. Closely followed—in view of the overall shortage of time—by patience. -Christopher Hitchens
32. Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent. -Billy Graham
33. I think patience is a skill and I wish I had it. -David Duchovny
34. The practice of patience in crafting and process is a virtue that needs to come back. -Zac Posen
35. The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare. -John Major
36. Patience is a conquering virtue. -Geoffrey Chaucer
37. Talent is a long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation. -Gustave Flaubert
38. For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice – no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service. -John Burroughs
39. To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin. -Thomas Aquinas
40. Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts. -James Russell Lowell
41. One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb. -Carl Hiaasen
42. A perfect chutney needs patience. If you are cooking it, cook it on a low flame; the flavors come out the best that way. -Maneet Chauhan
43. Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness. -Thomas Huxley
44. I like playing. I wouldn’t be a good coach. I don’t have the patience to be a coach. -Tom Brady
45. Abused patience turns to fury. -Thomas Fuller
46. Slow and Steady wins the race. -Aesop
47. And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough. -William Faulkner
48. The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience. -Leo Tolstoy
49. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it. -Arnold H. Glasgow
50. Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind. -David G. Allen
51. Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears. -Barbara Johnson