Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.
Soren Kierkegaard

Patience is passion tamed.
Lyman Abbott

Patience is sorrow's salve.
Charles Churchill

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

Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.
Guy Kawasaki

Patience is the art of hoping.
Luc de Clapier

Patience is the best medicine.
John Florio

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.
Plautus

Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Saint Augustine

Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.
Lord Chesterfield

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.
Charles Caleb Colton

Patience makes a women beautiful in middle age.
Elliot Paul

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

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

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.
Thomas Hardy

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

People ask me a lot about the values I got from playing for the Cubs for so many years. The value I got out of it was patience. A lot of people these days are not very patient.
Ernie Banks

Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience.
Thomas Perry

Republican patience with how unionism deals with the political institutions, and with key issues like equality and human rights, will be tested because, obviously, there will be a battle a day on these matters. So lets face up to all of this with our eyes wide open.
Gerry Adams