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32 of The Best Quotes About Patience

This collection of quotes about patience help to articulate just why patience is considered an important key to success in life.

Patience is not something that many people have, and it’s easy to see why. People want instant gratification in all aspects of their life these days. But patience has been proven to be a virtue, and one that will help you succeed in the long run.

Is Patience Important in Life?

Patience is defined in the dictionary as having the capacity to accept or tolerate delay, problems, or suffering without becoming annoyed or anxious. It allows calmness, less struggle, trust in oneself and the ability to apply a considered approach to life.

It’s these attributes that can lead to ongoing success in life – in relationships with others, in the workplace and with one’s own journey to achieve their goals in life.

 

The Best Quotes About Patience

 

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

 

“The strongest of all warriors are these two; time and patience.” Leo Tolstoy

 

“Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind.” David G. Allen

 

“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.” Aristotle

 

“Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.” Joyce Meyer

 

“Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.” A.A. Milne (Winnie the Pooh)

 

“Patience is a conquering virtue.” Geoffrey Chaucer

 

“Sometimes things aren’t clear right away. That’s where you need to be patient and persevere and see where things lead.” Mary Pierce

 

“Why is patience so important?” “Because it makes us pay attention.” Paulo Coelho

 

“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

 

“Top 15 things money can’t buy: Time. Happiness. Inner Peace. Integrity. Love. Character. Manners. Health. Respect. Morals. Trust. Patience. Class. Common sense. Dignity.” Roy T. Bennett

 

“How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.” Elbert Hubbard

 

“Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Have the patience to wait! Be still and allow the mud to settle.” Lao Tzu

 

“The world gives us PLENTY of opportunities to strengthen our patience. While this truth can definitely be challenging, this is a good thing. Patience is a key that unlocks the door to a more fulfilling life. It is through a cultivation of patience that we become better parents, powerful teachers, great businessmen, good friends, and a live a happier life.” Steve Maraboli

 

“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

 

“Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.” James J. Corbett

 

Quotes About Patience In Life

 

“An impatient person plays differently than a more patient person.” Vladimir Kramnik

 

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

 

“A waiting person is a patient person. The word patience means the willingness to stay where we are and live the situation out to the full in the belief that something hidden there will manifest itself to us.” Henri J.M. Nouwen

 

“We were planting seeds of change, the fruit of which we might never see. We had to be patient.” Michelle Obama

 

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

 

“Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.” Moliere

 

“Patience is a virtue; virtue is a grace.” Jacob Rees-Mogg

 

“Trust the process. Your time is coming. Just do the work and the results will handle themselves.” Tony Gaskins

 

“Patience is not the ability to wait. Patience is to be calm no matter what happens, constantly take action to turn it to positive growth opportunities and have faith to believe that it will all work out in the end while you are waiting.” Roy T. Bennett

 

“Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait…. there is nothing stronger than these two: patience and time, they will do it all.” Leo Tolstoy

 

“To lose patience is to lose the battle.” Mahatma Gandhi

 

Quotes About Patience And Perseverance

 

“Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.” John Quincy Adams

 

“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.” Rainer Maria Rilke

 

“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

 

“I will not be distracted by noise, chatter, or setbacks. Patience, commitment, grace, and purpose will guide me.” Louise Hay

 

“Inner peace is impossible without patience. Wisdom requires patience. Spiritual growth implies the mastery of patience. Patience allows the unfolding of destiny to proceed at its won unhurried pace.” Brian Weiss

 

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

 

Some people are more patient than others. It comes naturally for some, but it’s not often a behavior that has been modeled to us in life either, which makes it initially difficult. Take inspiration from the above inspiring quotes and integrate patience into your daily life more and more to notice gradual shifts.

 

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