Patience Quotes

A lot has been said about patience till now. Here is an effort to gather some great inspirational and motivational quotes on it. Feel free to quote a few of these to the impatient people that come across you in your daily life. Good for self-motivation also. Here they are…

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

He preacheth patience that never knew pain.
H. G. Bohn

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

Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
Saadi

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
Moliere

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
Laurence J. Peter

Abused patience turns to fury.
Thomas Fuller

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
John Ruskin

Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
Tertullian

Find patience in the breath of life.
Ryunosuke Satoro

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

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

He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
William Golding

Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.
Kin Hubbard

Patience has its limits, take it too far and it’s cowardice.
Holbrook Jackson

Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.
Soren Kierkegaard

Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.
Ambrose Bierce

Patience is passion tamed.
Lyman Abbott

Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Edmund Burke

Patience is sorrow’s salve.
Charles Churchill

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
Jean de La Fontaine

Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.
Guy Kawasaki

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
Barbara Johnson

The greatest power is often simple patience.
E. Joseph Cossman

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
Francis Bacon

The principle part of faith is patience.
George MacDonald

You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
Stanislaw Lec

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
Leo Tolstoy

There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them.
Larry Hagman

Beware the fury of a patient man.
John Dryden

When traveling with someone, take large dose of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.
Helen Hayes

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.
Ovid

Patience makes lighter what sorrow may not heal.
Horace

Patience is the ability to count down before you blast off.
Unknown

Regardless of how much patience we have, we would prefer never to use any of it.
James T. O’Brien

Adopt the pace of nature:  her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Patience makes a women beautiful in middle age.
Elliot Paul

Patience is also a form of action.
Auguste Rodin

Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Saint Augustine

A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.
Lana Turner

The secret of patience is doing something else in the meanwhile.
Unknown