(773 quotes found)
“Patience cures many an old complaint.”
Irish Proverb
“God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction”
Richard Cecil
“Infinite patience brings immediate results.”
Wayne Dyer
“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day. Letters to a Young Poet”
Rainer Maria Rilke
“Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.”
Corazon Aquino
“How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?”
William Shakespeare
“Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.”
Lord Chesterfield
“Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.”
Hal Borland
“The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.”
Kahlil Gibran