Patience Quotes

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

17396 quotes

S
"Patience is the ability to wait without losing yourself in the waiting."
Selma Lagerlöf
"Patience is not passive; it is active waiting with purpose."
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
"Patience is the art of hoping well."
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
H
"Patience is the virtue of champions."
Henrik Ibsen
B
"Patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to find meaning in waiting."
Boris Pasternak
A
"Patience is not weakness but the quiet strength of those who understand time."
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
A
"Patience is the art of waiting without losing yourself."
Anna Akhmatova
"Patience is not the ability to wait, but the attitude while waiting."
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
M
"Patience is the virtue of the strong."
Maxim Gorky
M
"The patient person inherits the earth."
Maxim Gorky
V
"Waiting is the hardest art of all."
Vladimir Nabokov
A
"Patience is not the acceptance of injustice; it is the wisdom to know when to act."
August Strindberg
H
"What we call patience is often simply the acceptance of what cannot be changed."
Henrik Ibsen
H
"Patience is the virtue of those who see the long view."
Henrik Ibsen
B
"The price of discipline is always less than the pain of regret."
Boris Pasternak
B
"Patience is the art of allowing time to be your ally."
Boris Pasternak
B
"Patience is love's way of respecting time."
Boris Pasternak
N
"Patience is a virtue that bears sweet fruit."
Nikolai Gogol
M
"Real strength lies in knowing how to wait."
Maxim Gorky
A
"I have learned that patience is not the absence of action, but right action in due time."
Anna Akhmatova
A
"Endless patience is the greatest virtue of those who build a new world."
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
M
"Patience is the virtue of the strong."
Mikhail Lermontov
M
"Patience brings wisdom."
Mikhail Lermontov
V
"Patience is not the absence of action but action without anger."
Vladimir Nabokov
A
"Patience is the virtue of the strong."
Aleksandr Pushkin
A
"Patience yields the greatest rewards."
Aleksandr Pushkin
N
"I have learned that patience is the greatest virtue."
Nikolai Gogol
B
"Patience is not the absence of action, but action with purpose."
Boris Pasternak
B
"Patience is not waiting; it is maintaining purpose while time does its work."
Boris Pasternak
M
"Patience is the companion of wisdom."
Maxim Gorky