Patience Quotes

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

17396 quotes

N
"Patience is the art of finding peace in progression."
Niccolò Copernicus
"Patience is not passivity but the active restraint of passionate impulses."
Thomas More
"Patience is not weakness but the strength to wait for the right moment."
Thomas More
M
"The feet of those that are in haste slip easily."
Michel de Montaigne
"We have two ears and one mouth so that we listen twice as much as we speak."
Diogenes Laërtius
"Anybody can become angry, that is easy. But to be angry with the right person to the right degree at the right time for the right purpose and in the right way is not within anybody's power."
Diogenes Laërtius
H
"Patience is the greatest virtue of the scholar."
Hypatia
P
"Patience in adversity is the mark of the wise."
Porphyry
S
"Patience is the virtue of the wise."
Strabo
S
"In the pursuit of knowledge, patience is essential."
Strabo
S
"Patience yields what force cannot take."
Strabo
P
"Patience is not passive; it is active waiting."
Petronius
P
"Patience yields peace."
Petronius
"Patience is not weakness but the strongest form of power."
Diogenes Laërtius
D
"Patience is the art of hoping."
Desiderius Erasmus
P
"Our fortune is mixed; we should mix it with patience."
Plutarch
M
"Patience and perseverance will carry us through the greatest difficulties."
Michel de Montaigne
H
"Hasty conclusions are the enemy of genuine knowledge and wisdom."
Hypatia
P
"Patience is the virtue of those who understand the eternal nature of the soul."
Porphyry
S
"The earth speaks to those patient enough to listen."
Strabo
S
"The earth teaches patience to those who would master her secrets."
Strabo
P
"Patience is the art of hoping."
Petronius
P
"Patience is not weakness; it is power held in reserve."
Petronius
A
"Patience is the virtue of the strong."
Apuleius
"Patience is not passivity; it is the wisdom to act at the right moment."
Diogenes Laërtius
"Patience with others begins with patience with oneself."
Diogenes Laërtius
J
"Patience is the art of hope."
Juvenal
P
"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience."
Plutarch
H
"Through patient observation, the secrets of nature reveal themselves."
Hypatia
A
"Patience is the companion of wisdom and the enemy of regret."
Apuleius