quotations about patience
Patience is passion tamed.
LYMAN ABBOTT
The Theology of an Evolutionist
This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don't get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can't do anything, don't get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it's ready to come undone. You have to realize it's going to be a long process and that you'll work on things slowly, one at a time.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
Norwegian Wood
Patience wins the race.
BERNARD BARTON
Bruce and the Spider
Patience is not only a virtue, but an acquired trait.
CHRISTIAN CALHOUN
The Story of My Life
The hands of patience never tire.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
It's easy to find reasons why other folks should be patient.
GEORGE ELIOT
Adam Bede
It has come to my attention by way of texts, emails, snail mail, voice messages and a note affixed to my front door by a medieval crossbow-type arrow that some people don't appreciate my particular brand of impatience. I would like to point out that I am the progeny of a man whose motto is "time is money." It's really not my fault.
PAM FERDERBAR
"Patience is a Virtue", Huffington Post, March 18, 2016
Patience is a conquering virtue.
The learned say that, if it not desert you,
It vanquishes what force can never reach;
Why answer back at every angry speech?
No, learn forbearance or, I'll tell you what,
You will be taught it, whether you will or not.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
The Canterbury Tales
At the bottom of patience is Heaven.
KANURI PROVERB
No man can be patient who has not strong passions, for patience is passion tamed.
LYMAN ABBOTT
The Theology of an Evolutionist
Patience is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Richard II
Patience is that calm and unruffled temper with which a good man bears the evils of life.
JOHN ROBINSON
A Theological, Biblical, and Ecclesiastical Dictionary
Consider, that Patience is necessary to alleviate and lighten the afflictions we suffer. The same burden shall not, by this means, have the same weight in it. There is a certain skill in taking up our load upon us, to make it sit handsome and easy: Whereas, others that take it up untowardly, find it most cumbersome and oppressive.
EZEKIEL HOPKINS
Death Disarm'd of Its Sting
He that can have patience can have what he will.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Poor Richard's Almanack, June 1736
The hardest test in life is having the patience to wait for the right moment.
ANONYMOUS
Without purpose, patience is an unreliable ally.
ROBERT E. SULLIVAN
Expressions of the Mind