Patience Quotes

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

17396 quotes

"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Patience is not passivity; it is the strategic postponement of action."
James Fenimore Cooper
"Patience is the art of waiting without bitterness."
James Fenimore Cooper
"I avoided asking, and avoided speaking of him; that seemed the most honorable thing."
Willa Cather
"Keep a quiet heart, and be patient with yourself."
Louisa May Alcott
"Patience brings peace and wisdom."
Louisa May Alcott
"Patience is a virtue that improves with practice, not with time."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
"Patience is the art of hoping with quiet dignity."
James Fenimore Cooper
"Every evil is its own cure."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Patience is the virtue that allows us to weather the storms of circumstance with grace."
Washington Irving
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"Patience transforms the unbearable into the manageable and the impossible into the gradual."
Washington Irving
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"Patience is the virtue of the melancholy man."
Edgar Allan Poe
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"Patience with others reflects patience with oneself."
Edgar Allan Poe
"When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear."
Mark Twain
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"Patience and time do more than strength or passion."
Herman Melville
"To be patient is to be strong; to be hasty is to be weak."
James Fenimore Cooper
"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"To wait is also to create what patience builds."
Emily Dickinson
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"Patience is the soil in which miracles grow."
Emily Dickinson
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"Patience is the art of hoping for something you already possess."
Washington Irving
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"Patience is not weakness—it is the strength to wait for the right moment."
Herman Melville
"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Patience is the virtue of the strong in spirit."
Emily Dickinson
"Patience is a virtue."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Wait with patience."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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"Patience is a virtue that must be cultivated."
François Mauriac
"Some learned to have patience with themselves."
Mark Twain
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"Patience is not passive resignation but active endurance."
Nathaniel Hawthorne