Patience Quotes
The hardest virtue. Waiting, enduring, and trusting that things take the time they take.
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"Patience is not passive; it is the active work of maintaining one's composure."Spinoza, Baruch
"Patience is the virtue of the strong."Descartes, René
"Patience is the ornament of the brave."Al-Ghazali
"In the garden of knowledge, water the flowers of understanding with the rain of patience."Avicenna
"To be patient is to give time its due respect."Avicenna
"Patience is the practice of endurance, and endurance is the foundation of all achievement."Locke, John
"Patience is the art of waiting without ceasing to move forward."Locke, John
"Patience is the virtue of a philosopher, not of a conquerer."Hume, David
"Understanding requires patience and perseverance."Averroes
"Patience is the foundation of all virtue."Averroes
"Patience is not passive; it is the strength to wait with purpose."Maimonides
"Patience is the arithmetic of the destitute."Descartes, René
"Patience is not the absence of action, but the wisdom of right timing."Avicenna
"Patience is the crown of the virtuous."Al-Ghazali
"Patience is not passivity; it is the art of choosing the right moment."Al-Ghazali
"Patience is the companion of wisdom."Augustine of Hippo
"Patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to maintain a good attitude while waiting."Augustine of Hippo
"Patience is the ornament of the brave."Augustine of Hippo
"Patience is the companion of wisdom."Thomas Aquinas
"Patience is the companion of wisdom and the enemy of rash judgment."Averroes
"The patient soul understands that all things unfold in their proper time."Averroes
"The patient person achieves more than the rushed because wisdom cannot be hurried."Averroes
"Those who cultivate patience gather harvests that last a lifetime."Avicenna
"A moment of anger can destroy what years of kindness have built."Avicenna
"Patience is the strength of the weak, impatience the weakness of the strong."Thomas Aquinas
"Bear and forbear."Epictetus
"The gate to good deeds is patience."Epictetus
"Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it."Seneca
"Events that are predestined require no anger."Seneca
"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the acts which provoke it."Seneca