1. “One minute of patience, ten years of peace.” ~ Greek proverb
2. “Have patience, my friend, have patience; For Rome wasn’t built in a day! You wear yourself out for nothing In many and many a way! Why are you nervous and fretty When things do not move along fast; Why let yourself get excited Over things that will soon be past?” ~ Gertrude Tooley Buckingham, “Patience”
3. “Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.” ~ Michel de Montaigne
4. “Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they.” ~ Leonardo da Vinci
5. “Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.” ~ Brian Adams
6. “Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
7. “Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.” ~ John Quincy Adams
8. “Patience is the companion of wisdom.” ~ St. Augustine
9. “Patience makes a women beautiful in middle age.” ~ Elliot Paul
10. “How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?” ~ William Shakespeare, Othello
11. “One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life.” ~ Chinese Proverb
12. “Patience is not just about waiting for something… it’s about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.” ~ Joyce Meyer
13. “Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.” ~ George-Louis de Buffon
14. “Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.” ~ Carl Jung
15. “Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.” ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
16. “Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.” ~ Robert H. Schuller
17. “It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.” ~ Julius Caesar
18. “I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.” ~ Paulo Coelho
19. “Patience is the key to paradise.” ~ Turkish Proverb
20. “Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.” ~ Saint Francis de Sales
21. “Sometimes things aren’t clear right away. That’s where you need to be patient and persevere and see where things lead.” ~ Mary Pierce
