Quotes
Quotes about Patience
Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice -George Jackson
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
Genius is eternal patience.
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Nature, Time and Patience are the three great physicians.
Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.
Have patience! In time, even grass becomes milk.
With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry. But were we burd'ned with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain: So thou, that hast no unkind mate to grieve thee, With urging helpless patience wouldst relieve me; But if thou live to see like right bereft, This fool-begged patience in thee will be left.
Patience and shuffle the cards. [Sp., Paciencia y barajar.]
Where there are love and generosity, there is joy. Where there are sincerity and sacrifice, there is friendship. Where there are harmony and simplicity, there is beauty. Where there are prayer and forgiveness, there is peace. Where there are moderation and patience, there is wisdom. Where there are conflicts and crises, there is opportunity. Where there are wonder and adventure, there is growth. Where there are adoration and confession, there is worship. Where there are compassion and concern, there is God. Where there are faith and hope, there is spring.
What you have said I will consider; what you have to say I will with patience hear, and find a time Both meet to hear and answer such high things.
Patience is the key to contentment.
Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.
Endurance is patience concentrated.
Exasperation is the mind's way of spinning its wheels until patience restores traction.
Genius is only patience. [Fr., Le Genie, c'est la patience.]
Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
The gods Grow angry with your patience. 'Tis their care, And must be yours, that guilty men escape not: As crimes do grow, justice should rouse itself.
Impatience is the mark of independence not of bondage.
Intuition is a suspension o f logic due to impatience.
Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.
With love and patience, nothing is impossible.
