Patience Quotes

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

17396 quotes

"Patience is not passive; it is concentrated strength."
Samuel Beckett
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"If you are not too long, I never mind waiting for you."
Oscar Wilde
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"Patience is the virtue of kings."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"Patience is the first essential when making progress toward your goals."
Leo Tolstoy
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"For most people undisturbed and often very tried by the world."
James Joyce
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"Patience is the highest form of wisdom."
James Joyce
"Let's wait for darkness."
Samuel Beckett
"How small a thing can make us lose patience."
Samuel Beckett
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"Mules are patient animals, but even they have limits."
Anton Chekhov
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"Patience is a virtue."
George Bernard Shaw
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"Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart."
William Butler Yeats
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"Patience is not passivity; it is the active waiting of one who knows their worth."
William Butler Yeats
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"Patience is not a virtue that comes to us easily."
Thomas Hardy
T
"Patience is a virtue that must be learned."
Thomas Hardy
T
"Wait with patience for good things."
Thomas Hardy
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"Patience is what you have when there are too many witnesses."
Oscar Wilde
"We are waiting still."
Samuel Beckett
J
"Patience transforms the mundane into the meaningful."
James Joyce
J
"Patience is the wisdom of understanding time's true nature."
James Joyce
L
"Patience is the virtue of the strong."
Leo Tolstoy
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"Nature will not be hurried."
George Eliot
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"Do not be too severe in your judgments."
Anne Brontë
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"Patience is the virtue of the strong."
Anne Brontë
A
"Impatience leads to regret."
Anne Brontë
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"Do you ask what I fain would be? A student of the Middle Way."
William Butler Yeats
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"I will be as patient as a cat with a mouse, but my patience is not infinite."
Anne Brontë
A
"Patience is the art of hoping without despair."
Anne Brontë
T
"Patience is not virtue; it is the resignation of those who lack power."
Thomas Hardy
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"Not all that tempts your wandering eyes and haughty heart is lawful prize."
William Butler Yeats
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"Waiting is a form of active patience."
Charlotte Brontë