Patience Quotes

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.
Charlie Chaplin

Beauty, Someone, Purpose

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

Before, Obstacles, Effect

Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

Stupidity, Alcohol, Infinite

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass, and it seems like all is lost - Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward... with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.
Michelle Obama

Love, Courage, Wisdom

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

Faith, Hope, Past

Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.
Ambrose Bierce

Revenge, Worth, While

The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And yes, there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It's called being human.
Elizabeth Edwards

Strength, Human, Able

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Love, Alone, Wise

When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.
Helen Hayes

Travel, Morning, Someone

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

Ability, Idle, Gears

We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Vanity, Offensive

There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience.
Chuck Tanner

Leadership, Important, Secret

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.
Thomas Aquinas

Someone, Done, Else

A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.
Gertrude Jekyll

Gardening, Trust, Teacher

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
James Russell Lowell

Great, Passion, Endurance

It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.
George Santayana

Marriage, Takes, Appreciate

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
Hal Borland

Nature, Understand, Knowing

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.
May Sarton

Gardening, Nature, Help

Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
Thomas Huxley

Worth, Tenacity, Twice

I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.
David Hobson

Gardening, Joy, Soul

The Scriptures contain many stories of people who waited years or even decades before the Lord's promises came to pass. What modern believers can learn from the patience of biblical saints like Abraham, Joseph, David, and Paul is that waiting upon the Lord has eternal rewards.
Charles Stanley

Waiting, Before, Learn

Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.
Alice Walker

Life, Family, Women

I'd like to be more patient! I just want everything now. I've tried to meditate, but it's really hard for me to stay still. I'd like to try to force myself to do it, because everybody says how wonderful meditation is for you, but I can't shut my mind up. So patience and learning is the key.
Ellen DeGeneres

Learning, Mind, Hard

I have not the smarts or patience for political office.
Henry Rollins

Political, Office, Smarts

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

Humility, Honor, Calm

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