62 Best Patience Quotes You Must Know

Patience is a virtue, we all know this, we have been listening to this quote on and on since, well, forever. However, patience is no longer just a virtue, it is one of the keys to success in a rapidly moving world such as ours.

So, if you feel like the thread holding your virtue in place is thinning down and you need some inspiration, then this is the place you need to be. I have curated 62 best patience quotes that you must know.

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The List of Awesome Patience Quotes

“Patience is not simply the ability to wait—it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.” –Joyce Meyer

“Never cut a tree down in the winter time. 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

“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” –Harriet Tubman

“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

“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.” –Leo Tolstoy

“I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude fo hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you’re able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something…it’s about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.”—Joyce Meyer

“Becoming a father increases your capacity for love and your level of patience. It opens up another door in a person—a door which you may not even have known was there. That’s what I feel with my son. There’s suddenly another level of love that expands. My son is my greatest joy, out of everything in my life.” –Kyle MacLachlan

“Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.” –Samuel Johnson

“Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.” –Billy Graham

“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.”—Cark Jung

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

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

“Sometimes we may ask God for success, and he gives us physical and mental stamina. We might plead for prosperity, and we receive enlarged perspective and increased patience, or we petition for growth and are blessed with the gift of grace. He may bestow upon us conviction and confidence as we strive to achieve worthy goals.” –David A. Bednar

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

“I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.” –Lao Tzu

“Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.” –Saadi

“Having patience is one of the hardest things about being human. We want to do it now, and we don’t want to wait. Sometimes we miss out on our blessing when we rush things and do it on our own time.” –Deontay Wider

“Qualities you need to get through medical school and residency: Discipline. Patience. Perseverance. A willingness to forego sleep. A penchant for sadomasochism. Ability to weather crises of faith and self-confidence. Accept exhaustion as fact of life. Addiction to caffeine a definite plus. Unfailing optimism that the end is in the sight.” –Khaled Hosseini

“I am blessed to be surrounded by the people I love. I thank them for their patience and grace.” –Matt Lauer

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

“We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.” –Helen Keller

“The creative people admire seem to share many charctersitcs: A fierce restlessness. Healthy cynicism. A real world perspective. An ability to simplify. Restraint. Patience, a genuine balance of confidence and insecurity. And most importantly, humanity.” –David Droga

“Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience—I want all those to be very sharp tools in my shed.” –CeeLo Greem

“The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.” –Erik Erikson

“If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.” –Mahatma Gandhi

“Allah is with the people who show patience. If you are down in the dumps, Allah will help you if you have belief. Bu this is a personal thing between you and him. You can’t fool Allah.”

“Patience doesn tmean making a pact with the devil of denial ignoring our emotions and aspirations. It means being wholeheartedly engaged in the process that’s unfolding, rather than ripping open a bidding flower or demanding a caterpillar to hurry up and get that chrysalis stage over with.” –Sharon Salzberg

“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

“Genius is patience.” –Isaac Newton

“Indeed, this life is a test. It is a test of many things—of our convictions and priorities, our faith and faithfulness, our patience and our resilience, and in the end, our ultimate desires.” –Sheri L. Dew

“The key to everything is patience. You get chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.” –Arnold H. Glasgow

“Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.” –Philips Brooks

“I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.” –Edith Sitwell

“A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.” –Moliere

“Patience is the companion of wisdom.” –Saint Augustine

“There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.” –Swami Sivananda

“The two biggest things that translate from the pitching mound to hunting and fishing are patience and perseverance. When you’re on the mound, you have to game one pitch at a time, regardless of the score, and that approach helps when I’m in the woods or on the water as well.” –Jon Lester

“The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.” –Solomon Ibn Gabirol

“People are stubborn about what they perceive to be right thing or the wrong thing, and it takes a long time to filter this human condition. There is a waiting period until people catch up. But if you have patience—which it takes when someone thinks differently from you—everybody always catches up. That patience is a wonderful virtue.” –Johnny Mathis

“Good character is not formed in a week or month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.” –Heraclitus

“Patience is a virtue, and I’m learning patience. It’s a tough lesson.” –Elon Musk

“You can’t jump from little things to big things. It just takes time and patience.” –Nadia Comaneci

“He that can have patience can have what he will.” –Benjamin Franklin

“It took me a while to learn the true meaning of patience and surrender, but I have finally accepted that healing doesn’t happen on our schedule. It doesn’t have a clock or a calendar.” –Yolanda Hadid

“Amongst the qualities a hero should have, I would include deteremination, loyalty, perseverance, patience, foucs, intrepidity and selflessness.” –Ricky Martin

“Sometimes things aren’t clear right away. That’s where you need to be patient and persevere and see where things lead.” –Mary Pierce

“There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance.” –Cesar Chavez

“Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.” –Sammy Davis Jr.

“With love and patience, nothing is impossoble.” –Daisaku Ikeda

“Patience can’t be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.” –Eknath Easwaran

“When people see a legend, they call it a legend. But to be a legend, it’s a lot of hardwork and patience. You can’t play for five or ten years and be a legend. It takes longer than that.” –Burning Spear

“Patience is the secret to good food.” –Gail Simmons

“The very important thing you should have is patience.” –Jack Ma

“Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.” –Guy Kawasaki

“Patience and diligence like faith, remove mountains.” –William Penn

Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.” –James J. Corbett

“Patience and time do more than strength or passion.” –Jean de La Fontaine

“I simply do not think that yelling, swearing, threatening or belittling will get you to the place you want to be faster than kindness, understanding, patience and a little willingness to compromise.” –Rachel Nichols

“I have learned that anything in life worth having comes from patience and hardwork.” –Greg Behrendt

“My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you’ve got to be a filmmaker.” –Robert Wise

“It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.” –Elizabeth Taylor

“Our real blessings appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.” –Joseph Addison