Patience Quotes

The secret of patience is doing something else in the meanwhile.

If you are patient in one day of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives.

Patience is the ability to count down before you blast off.

With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.

My master preaches patience to him and the while His man with scissors nicks him like a fool. (The Comedy of Errors)

Patience is good only when it is the shortest way to a good end; otherwise, impatience is better.

An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains.

‘Tis all men’s office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow; But no man’s virtue nor sufficiency To be so moral when he shall endure The like himself. (Much Ado About Nothing)

Sometimes we take credit for being patient when we are simply putting off doing something unpleasant.