140 Patience Virtue Quotes

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Famous Patience Virtue Quotes

Patience is a conquering virtue. — Geoffrey Chaucer

Patience is the greatest of all virtues. — Cato The Elder

Patience is a virtue, have it if you can, seldom found in a woman, almost never in a man. — Thomas Phelps

Patience is the companion of wisdom. - Saint Augustine

Patience is the companion of wisdom. — Saint Augustine

Patience is a virtue, and a little will not hurt you. — Hungarian Proverbs

Be patient; patience is a pillar of faith. — Umar

Patience is the analogue of God's serenity. — Austin O'Malley

Patience is passion tamed. — Lyman Abbott

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius. — Benjamin Disraeli

Patience and fortitude conquer all things. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble. — Plautus

Patience is the key to joy. — Rumi

Patience is so like fortitude that she seems either her sister or her daughter. — Aristotle

Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is "timing" it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way. — Fulton J. Sheen

Patience is also a form of action. - Auguste Rodin

Patience is also a form of action. — Auguste Rodin

Short Patience Virtue Quotes

  • Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Patience is the rarest and most valuable trait of a successful investor. — Gautam Baid
  • Patience is the strength of the weak, impatience is the weakness of the strong. — Immanuel Kant
  • Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod. — William Shakespeare
  • He that can have patience can have what he will. — Benjamin Franklin
  • Instruct thyself for time and patience favor all. — Pythagoras
  • Practice humility and patience. — Vincent de Paul
  • Patience is a bitter plant that produces sweet fruit. — Charles R. Swindoll
  • Patience; this is the greatest business asset. Wait for the right time to make your moves. — J. Paul Getty
  • Patience is of two kinds: patience over what pains you, and patience against what you covet. — Ali ibn Abi Talib

Patience Virtue Image Quotes

Patience virtue quote Patience is when you're supposed to be mad but you choose to understand.
Patience is when you're supposed to be mad but you choose to understand.

Patience Is A Virtue But Quotes

Patience is a virtue, but impatience gets things done. — Chelsea Clinton

To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance. — Oscar Wilde

Jenny replied to this with a bitterness which might have surprized a judicious person, who had observed the tranquillity with which she bore all the affronts to her chastity; but her patience was perhaps tired out, for this is a virtue which is very apt to be fatigued by exercise. — Henry Fielding

Patience virtue quote Be patient with yourself, nothing in nature blooms all year.
Be patient with yourself, nothing in nature blooms all year.

There is a patience that cackles. There are a great many virtues that are hen-like. They are virtue, to be sure; but everybody in the neighborhood has to know about them. — Henry Ward Beecher

Patience may be a virtue, but quitting is an art. — Evan Harris

What Is Patience Is Virtue Quotes

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

Patience is a virtue. Keep doing what you want to do and eventually things will happen. — Arian Foster

Patience is a virtue Savannah, to tolerate delay. It implies self control and forbearance, as opposed to wanting what we want when we want it. Something to think about. . . — Catherine Weaver

Patience virtue quote Patience and fortitude conquer all things.
Patience and fortitude conquer all things.

Ours is a kind of struggle designed, I dare say, by Providence to try the patience, fortitude, and virtue of men. None, therefore, who is engaged in it, will suffer himself, I trust, to sink under difficulties, or be discouraged by hardships. If he cannot do as he wishes, he must do what he can. — George Washington

Virtue hath no virtue if it be not impugned; then appeareth how great it is, of what value and power it is, when by patience it approveth what it works. — Seneca

Patience Is A Virtue Quotes

Good things come to those who hustle — Chuck Noll

All things come to those who wait. — Violet Fane

Good things come to those who wait. - Jess C Scott

Good things come to those who wait. — Jess C Scott

Patience virtue quote To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.
To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.

Cooking is an art and patience a virtue. Careful shopping, fresh ingredients and an unhurried approach are nearly all you need. There is one more thing - love. Love for food and love for those you invite to your table. With a combination of these things you can be an artist — Keith Floyd

Good things come to those who initiate. — Susan RoAne

Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement. — Vera Nazarian

Patience virtue quote The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

I guess good things come to those who wait. — Kurt Busch

Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson. — Elon Musk

All good things come to those who wait. — Paullina Simons

Patience is only a virtue when there is something worth waiting for. — Lauren Willig

Patience Quotes

Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake. — Voltaire

What we need is a cup of understanding, a barrel of love, and an ocean of patience. — Saint Francis de Sales

Only a burning patience will lead to the attainment of a splendid happiness. - Pablo Neruda

Only a burning patience will lead to the attainment of a splendid happiness. — Pablo Neruda

Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves. - Al-Ghazali

Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves. — Al-Ghazali

Patience is not sitting and waiting, it is foreseeing. It is looking at the thorn and seeing rose, looking at the night and seeing the day. Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full. — Shams Tabrizi

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

Patience virtue quote Patience is power.
Patience is power.

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore. — William Faulkner

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

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

Sabr is not remaining quiet and allowing anger to build up inside you. Sabr is to talk about what's bothering you without losing control of your emotions. — Nouman Ali Khan

The people who test your patience are a blessing.. Without them, you can't practice patience. — Nouman Ali Khan

Long Patience Quotes

Cleaners don’t care about instant gratification. The invest in the long-term payoff. — Tim Grover

He goes long barefoot that waits for dead men’s shoes. — Scottish Proverbs

Instant gratification is the kiss of death. That mindset hurts anything it touches. Business, health, politics, friendship, relationship, finances. It attracts short-term thinkers and is turned off by long-term thinkers. Don't fall for this trap. — Patrick Bet-David

Patience virtue quote Patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting.
Patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting.

If you are going a long way, go slowly. — Filipino Proverbs

I think long-term and on a long enough time scale. — Naval Ravikant

No road is to long for him who advances slowly and does not hurry and no attainment is beyond his reach who equips himself with patience to achieve it — Jean De La Bruyere

Patience virtue quote Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Love opens all doors, no matter how tightly closed they may be, no matter how rusty from lack of use. Your work is to bring unity and harmony, to open all those doors which have been closed for a long time. Have patience and tolerance. Open your heart all the time. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

They call it perfect timing after years of long-term patience. — Steven Bartlett

In business, I think the most important thing is to position yourself for long-term and not be too impatient. — Bernard Arnault

God's chief way of acting is by persuasion and patience and long-suffering, not by coercion and stark confrontation. He acts by gentle solicitation and by sweet enticement. He always acts with unfailing respect for the freedom and independence that we possess. — Howard W. Hunter

Life Patience Quotes

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. — Marie Curie

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

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. — Lao Tzu

Patience virtue quote Two things define you : Your patience when you have nothing, and your attitude when you have everyth
Two things define you : Your patience when you have nothing, and your attitude when you have everything.

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

You cannot make your life move faster than it's moving. No matter how urgent your situation may seem to be, things are going to happen when they happen, not a minute sooner. Be patient with yourself. Be patient with others. Be patient with life. Patience always pays off. — Iyanla Vanzant

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day. - A. A. Milne

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day. — A. A. Milne

Patience virtue quote Patience is not passive, on the contrary it is concentrated strength.
Patience is not passive, on the contrary it is concentrated strength.

Patience, grasshopper," said Maia. "Good things come to those who wait." "I always thought that was 'Good things come to those who do the wave,'" said Simon. "No wonder I've been so confused all my life. — Cassandra Clare

Every relationship has a spiritual purpose that helps us grow and become stronger. Sometimes, our most challenging relationships bring the greatest personal blessings. From them we learn about forgiveness, patience, and other virtues. — Doreen Virtue

Rely on the ordinary virtues that intelligent, balanced human beings have relied on for centuries: common sense, thrift, realistic expectations, patience, and perseverance. — John C. Bogle

Like anything worth doing in life, happiness takes time and patience and consistency. — Mark Manson

Great Patience Quotes

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

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

Successful Investing takes time, discipline and patience. No matter how great the talent or effort, some things just take time: You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant. — Warren Buffett

Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that is patience. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. — Leo Tolstoy

Patience virtue quote Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait, simply wait much of the time - until my instincts assured me that I had assembled my materials in proper order for a final welding into their natural form. — Hart Crane

The best mirror is an old friend. — George Herbert

In summary, all great work is the fruit of patience and perseverance, combined with tenacious concentration on a subject over a period of months or years. — Santiago Ramon y Cajal

No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. - Warren Buffett

No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. — Warren Buffett

It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward. — Louis Sachar

Who is the great man? He who is strongest in patience. He who patiently endures injury, and maintains a blameless life--he is a man indeed! — H. P. Blavatsky

The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience. - Leo Tolstoy

The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience. — Leo Tolstoy

Patience And Endurance Quotes

Grace is the wonderful spirit that imbues every fiber of our being when we practice the fruits of the spirit: kindness, patience, understanding, forgiveness, love, gentleness, fellowship and endurance. — Edgar Cayce

Don’t give up when things get tough, just hang in there, stay focused and be patient. — Folorunsho Alakija

You can’t sit around and do nothing, you have to carry on. — Kylian Mbappe

There is no joy for the one who does not bear sadness, there is no sweetness for the one who does not have patience, there is no delight for the one who does not suffer, and there is no relaxation for the one who does not endure fatigue. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer. — Mark Z. Danielewski

Every worthwhile accomplishment has a price tag attached to it. The question is always whether you are willing to pay the price to attain it - in hard work, sacrifice, patience, faith, and endurance. — John C. Maxwell

Wisdom and power follow endurance and patience. — Muhammad

If you're serious about sanctification, you can expect to experience heart-wrenching moments that try your faith, your endurance, and your patience. — Sheri L. Dew

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

If you ask him: "What is silence?" he will answer, "It is the Great Mystery! The holy silence is His voice!" If you ask: "What are the fruits of silence?" he will say: "They are self-control, true courage or endurance, patience, dignity, and reverence. Silence is the cornerstone of character." — Charles Alexander Eastman

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More Patience Virtue Quotes

Patience is not found on someone's face, but in their heart. — Turkish Proverbs

Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will - that is, the good will to serve Him and our neighbor in Him. His providence allows us other devotions only insofar as He sees that they are useful to us. — Ignatius of Loyola

Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish. — David Mallet

Humility is the mother of many virtues because from it obedience, fear, reverence, patience, modesty, meekness and peace are born. He who is humble easily obeys everyone, fears to offend anyone, is at peace with everyone, is kind with all. — Thomas of Villanova

Most men are notable for one conspicuous virtue or grace - Moses for meekness, Job for patience, John for love. But, in Jesus you find everything. — J. Oswald Sanders

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness. — Carl Jung

Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue. — Ambrose Bierce

Only bad things happen quickly, . . . Virtually all the happiness-produ cing processes in our lives take time, usually a long time: learning new things, changing old behaviors, building satisfying relationships, raising children. This is why patience and determination are among life's primary virtues. — Gordon Livingston

The time has arrived when patience becomes a crime and mayhem appears garbed in a manner of virtue — Edgar Rice Burroughs

Patience is a noble virtue, and, when rightly exercised, does not fail of its reward. — George Washington

Patience is a virtue, but there comes a moment when you must stop being patient and take the day by the throat and shake it. If it fights back; fine. I'd rather end up bloody at the end of the day, then unhurt with no progress made, no knowledge gained. I'd rather have a no, then nothing. I'd forgotten that about myself. — Laurell K. Hamilton

Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here. — Philip Massinger

Our problem is that we often expect instantaneous solutions to such challenges, forgetting that frequently the heavenly virtue of patience is required. — Thomas S. Monson

More things to remember: 7) The value of time; 8) The pleasure of working; 9) The obligation of duty; 10) The power of kindness; 11) The wisdom of economy; 12) The virtue of patience. — Marshall Field

Want is a bitter and a hateful good, Because its virtues are not understood; Yet many things, impossible to thought, Have been by need to full perfection brought. The daring of the soul proceeds from thence, Sharpness of wit, and active diligence; Prudence at once, and fortitude it gives; And, if in patience taken, mends our lives. — John Dryden

No, no; 'tis all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow, But no man's virtue nor sufficiency To be so moral when he shall endure The like himself. Therefore give me no counsel: My griefs cry louder than advertisement. — William Shakespeare

Cooking is an art and patience a virtue... Careful shopping, fresh ingredients and an unhurried approach are nearly all you need. There is one more thing - love. Love for food and love for those you invite to your table. With a combination of these things you can be an artist - not perhaps in the representational style of a Dutch master, but rather more like Gauguin, the naïve, or Van Gogh, the impressionist. Plates or pictures of sunshine taste of happiness and love. — Keith Floyd

Patience is a virtue. (Tee) Excuse me, pot, could you not pick on the kettle? (Joe) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Patience is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not. — George Granville

Gardening is an excellent example of a practice to which, as Alasdair MacIntyre puts it, certain virtues are 'internal'. Good gardening requires a certain goodness on the part of the gardener: care, humility, patience, and respect, for example. — David E. Cooper

True patience is grounded in wisdom and compassion. — Allan Lokos

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