Patience Quotes

Everything comes to the man who won’t wait.

What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.

Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.

Job was not so miserable in his sufferings, as happy in his patience.

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. To dig for treasures shows not only impatience and greed, but lack of faith. Patience, patience, patience, is what the sea teaches. Patience and faith. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach – waiting for a gift from […]

There are two things which we must always bear in mind when we grow impatient or desponding. How much has been done before us; how many will come after us to do what remains to be done.

All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.

Let us be patient! These severe afflictions, Not from the ground arise; But oftentimes celestial benedictions, Assume this dark disguise.

The opera ain’t over ’til the fat lady sings.

Exasperation is the mind’s way of spinning its wheels until patience restores traction.