Patience Quotes

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

17396 quotes

"Patience is the virtue of the truly strong."
Vespasian
"Patience yields rewards that haste cannot achieve."
Vespasian
H
"Patience is the virtue of emperors and the medicine of the soul."
Hadrian
T
"In war, patience is as valuable as steel; know when to strike and when to wait."
Trajan
T
"Remember that empires are built brick by brick, not in a single campaign."
Trajan
"Rome was not built in a day."
Nero
T
"The greatest remedy for anger is delay."
Titus
T
"Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it."
Titus
A
"In the garden of life, patience is the greatest fertilizer for growth."
Antoninus Pius
A
"Patience is not inaction; it is action informed by wisdom."
Antoninus Pius
A
"The patient person sees what the hurried cannot."
Antoninus Pius
D
"Patience is a virtue for the weak; decisiveness, the mark of greatness."
Domitian
C
"Patience is the virtue of the wise."
Claudius
C
"Patience is the ornament of virtue."
Claudius
"I have commanded armies and healed wounds; both require patience and precision."
Vespasian
"The patience required to build is greater than the strength required to destroy."
Vespasian
T
"Patience is not weakness; it is strategic strength."
Titus
T
"Patience is the antidote to a world obsessed with speed."
Titus
"Patience is a virtue."
Caligula
"All good things come to those who wait."
Caligula
T
"In governance, as in war, timing is everything and patience is virtue."
Trajan
"Patience is a virtue for those waiting for their turn; I refuse to wait."
Nero
"Those who rush are often the first to fall; patience is the hunter's virtue."
Nero
D
"To build requires patience; to destroy requires only a moment."
Domitian
D
"The man who speaks too much reveals more than he intends."
Domitian
"Patience is the virtue of the strong."
Tiberius
"Patience is the mark of a disciplined mind."
Tiberius
C
"Patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to maintain a good attitude while waiting."
Claudius
"Patience is a virtue only for slaves waiting for their master."
Caligula
T
"Patience is the weapon of those who see beyond tomorrow."
Titus