Patience Quotes

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

17396 quotes

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"Patience is an emotional intelligence skill."
Daniel Goleman
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"The person who cannot delay gratification cannot achieve much."
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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"Patience is the recognition that growth takes time and cannot be rushed."
Christopher Peterson
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"Patience with others is easier when we extend patience toward ourselves."
Christopher Peterson
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"The ability to delay gratification is one of the most important skills you can develop."
Roy Baumeister
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"Patience is not about waiting, it's about keeping a good attitude while you wait."
Barbara Fredrickson
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"Patience is a practice, not a personality trait."
Barbara Fredrickson
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"The most successful people are those who can delay gratification and work toward long-term goals."
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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"Patience is the ability to hold your vision while allowing time for its realization."
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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"Patience is not passive waiting; it is active faith in the process of growth."
Martin Seligman
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"Patience with ourselves is as important as patience with others; growth takes time and stumbles."
Martin Seligman
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"Patience with ourselves is the foundation of patience with others."
Barbara Fredrickson
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"Patience is not passive; it's active trust in the process of life."
Barbara Fredrickson
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"Patience is not passivity. It's the active choice to trust the process while working diligently toward goals."
Christopher Peterson
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"Patience is the practice of trusting the timing and working within it rather than against it."
Christopher Peterson
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"Haste in decision-making often leads to regret in hindsight."
Amos Tversky
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"The capacity to delay gratification is one of the most important skills we can develop."
Daniel Goleman
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"Patience is the willingness to trust the process and the timing of our own unfolding."
Daniel Goleman
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"Patience in parenting is an investment in a child's future."
Mary Ainsworth
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"Parental patience plants seeds of self-patience in children."
Mary Ainsworth
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"The work of healing attachment wounds requires patience and self-compassion."
John Bowlby
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"Patience with others begins with patience with yourself."
Daniel Goleman
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"The quality of our inner dialogue determines the quality of our outer experience."
Barbara Fredrickson
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"Patience is the antidote to the urgency that modern life constantly demands of us."
Barbara Fredrickson
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"Fear in infancy is not a weakness to be overcome but a signal to be heard."
Mary Ainsworth
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"We are dying from overthinking"
Abraham Maslow
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"Patience with ourselves is one of the greatest gifts we can give ourselves."
Carl Rogers
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"Patience is the mark of a strong and steadfast spirit."
Abraham Maslow
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"We cannot force moral development; we can only create conditions where it can flourish."
Lawrence Kohlberg
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"The educator must respect the child's own rhythm of development."
Jean Piaget