Patience Quotes

The hardest virtue. Waiting, enduring, and trusting that things take the time they take.

17396 quotes

"Patience with the unfamiliar is the first virtue of the scholar."
Claude Lévi-Strauss
"Understanding requires humility before what we do not know."
Claude Lévi-Strauss
"Patience is the art of waiting without expectation."
Claude Lévi-Strauss
J
"Patience is the remedy for all evils."
Jérémie Bentham
K
"Patience is not passive; it is the active process of learning."
Karl Popper
K
"Patience allows us to see patterns that haste would miss."
Karl Popper
"Patience is the virtue of understanding what cannot yet be explained."
Claude Lévi-Strauss
"Patience is the mark of genuine understanding."
Claude Lévi-Strauss
A
"Patience is the virtue that unlocks all doors."
Antonio Genovesi
A
"Patient persistence conquers all obstacles."
Antonio Genovesi
J
"Patience is the virtue of the strong."
Johann Tetens
J
"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."
Johann Tetens
J
"Patience is the virtue of those who understand time."
Julien Offray de La Mettrie
J
"Patience is the art of accepting time's passage."
Julien Offray de La Mettrie
A
"Patience in adversity reveals the true character of a man."
Antonio Genovesi
A
"Patience is not passivity; it is the wisdom to act at the proper moment."
Antonio Genovesi
"Patience with gradual improvement is preferable to revolutionary upheaval"
Friedrich Hayek
J
"Time reveals what effort conceals; patience is the greatest teacher."
Johann Tetens
J
"Patience is not passivity; it is the strategic use of time."
Johann Tetens
"Patience in building institutions is necessary; their destruction is far easier."
Friedrich Hayek
G
"Patience teaches us that meaning unfolds gradually through perception."
George Berkeley
C
"It is a great folly to sacrifice the certainty of the present evil for the uncertainty of future good."
Cesare Beccaria
C
"Justice delayed is justice denied, but hasty justice is injustice assured."
Cesare Beccaria
A
"Patience is not passivity but the strategic wisdom of knowing when to act and when to wait."
Antonio Genovesi
J
"Patience is understanding that all things unfold according to natural law."
Julien Offray de La Mettrie
J
"Patience is the virtue that allows small efforts to accumulate into great achievements."
Johann Tetens
J
"Patience is the great accelerator; it permits small consistent efforts to compound over time."
Johann Tetens
A
"Patience is not weakness; it is the strength to wait for justice."
Antonio Genovesi
G
"Patience is the virtue of the wise"
Giovanni Vico
C
"Laws enacted in haste and without deliberation often prove unjust in practice."
Cesare Beccaria