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Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.

Homer

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Aristotle

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Plautus

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

Gaius Julius Caesar

Bear patiently with a rival.

Publius Ovidius Naso

Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.

Phaedrus

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

Augustine of Hippo

The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.

Saadi of Shiraz

All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.

Thomas à Kempis

Genius is eternal patience.

Michelangelo

No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.

William Shakespeare

Whoever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

Francis Bacon

Have patience with all things. But, first of all with yourself.

Saint Francis de Sales

Abused patience turns to fury.

Thomas Fuller

We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.

François VI

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

Jean de La Fontaine

Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin

Beware the fury of a patient man.

John Dryden

Patience and diligence, like faith, remove mountains.

William Penn

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Benjamin Franklin

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Samuel Johnson

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Patience is the art of hoping.

Luc de Clapiers

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.

Sir George Savile

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

John Quincy Adams

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.

Charles Caleb Colton

Endurance is patience concentrated.

Thomas Carlyle

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

Leo Tolstoy

Patience is passion tamed.

Lyman Abbott

Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

James John “Gentleman Jim” Corbett

Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.

Frank McKinney Hubbard

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

Helen Adams Keller

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

A.A. Milne

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

Napoleon Hill

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell

Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.

Peter Marshall

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.

Arnold H. Glasow

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Franklin P. Jones

You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.

Sir William Gerald Golding

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.

Laurence Johnston Peter

With love and patience, nothing is impossible.

Daisaku Ikeda

Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it’s cowardice.

George Jackson

Patience is not simply the ability to wait. It’s how we behave while we’re waiting.

Joyce Meyer

Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

Barbara Johnson