Quotes about Patience

The Lord is good unto them who wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.
- Bible, Lamentations (ch. III, v. 25)

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
[Fr., La patience est amere, mais son fruit est doux.]
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.
- George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon

Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Be still and allow the mud to settle.
-Lao Tzu

Patience makes lighter what sorrow may not heal.
-Horace

One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life.
-Chinese Proverb

Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.
-Brian Adams

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
-Napoleon Hill


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 to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
-Carl Jung

All things come to him who waits - provided he knows what he is waiting for.
-Woodrow T. Wilson

If you add a little to a little, and then do it again, soon that little shall be much
-Hesiod