The Power of Patience Quotes: Harness Perseverance for Your Success

Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience.Albert Camus, A Happy Death (1971)

Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience – or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility (1811)

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.Henry David Thoreau, The Journal (September 23, 1838)

Blessings may appear under the shape of pains, losses, and disappointments; but let him have patience, and he will see them in their proper figures.Joseph Addison, The Guardian No. 117 (July 25, 1713)

The most powerful thing you can do right now is be patient while things are unfolding for you.Idil Ahmed

The hardest test in life is having the patience to wait for the right moment.Anonymous

Have patience. Everything is difficult before it is easy.Anonymous

Have patience to walk with short steps until you have wings to fly.Anonymous

Everything comes if a man will only wait.Benjamin Disraeli, Tancred (1847)

Everything is out there if you know how to find it, and have the patience.Anonymous

Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.Barbara Johnson, The Joyful Journey (1997)

Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.Søren Kierkegaard, The Journals (August 1, 1835)

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.Anonymous

Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.Anonymous

Patience is passion tamed.Lyman Abbott, The Theology of an Evolutionist (1897)

All human power is a compound of time and patience.Honoré de Balzac, Eugénie Grandet (1833)

There is nothing stronger than those two: patience and time, they will do it all.Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace (1869)

Patience can’t be acquired overnight. It’s just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.Eknath Easwaran, Your Life Is Your Message (1992)

Think calmly and well upon this whole subject. Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address (March 4, 1861)

Be patient. Good things take time.Anonymous

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch (1959)

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.Anonymous

It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you.Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (1847)

With patience we become more mindful of others. Practicing mindfulness gives us the option to cool down and to extend the grace of patience to ourselves and others.Hyder Zahed, Patience Is a Virtue Worth Developing, in Huffington Post (March 28, 2016)

Whoever is patient has great understanding, but one who is quick-tempered displays folly.Book of Proverbs 14:29, (New International Version)

Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.Anonymous

The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.Erik Erikson, Interview by Faniel Goleman, in The New Your Times (June 14, 1988)

Have patience with all the world, but first of all with yourself.Saint Francis de Sales, The Spiritual Maxims (Harper & Brothers, ed. 1953)

Persistence is the key to everything. Patience and persistence.Bertha Russell, The Gilded Age, S1.Ep1: Never the New

The two hardest tests on the spiritual road: the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what you encounter.Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die (1998)

Patience is the determination to exist when everything wants you to shatter.Ray Parker, The Healing Peace

Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can’t go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad (2005)

Two things define you: your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.Anonymous

One step at a time, one punch at a time, one round at a time.Rocky Balboa, Creed (2015)

Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement.Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.Proverb

Learning patience can be a difficult experience, but once conquered you will find life is easier.Anonymous

With care and patience, people may accomplish things which, to an indolent person, would appear impossible.Dorothea Lynde Dix, Conversations on Common Things (1828)

A man who masters patience masters everything else.Anonymous

Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner.Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead (1943)

With love and patience, nothing is impossible.Anonymous

If we could look into each other’s hearts and understand the unique challenges each of us faces, I think we would treat each other much more gently, with more love, patience, tolerance, and care.Anonymous

An alternative to love is not hate but patience.Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday (2010)

Perfect love is perfectly patient.Anonymous

If you have patience, then you’ll also have love. Patience leads to love.Anonymous

What we need is a cup of understanding, a barrel of love, and an ocean of patience.Anonymous

All good things arrive unto them that wait – and don’t die in the meantime.Mark Twain, Letter to Orion and Jane Clemens (April 3, 1889)

Patience is like a grating foreign accent. It can wear thin.Count Olaf, A Series of Unfortunate Events, S2.Ep10: The Carnivorous Carnival: Part Two

Patience is the mother of all virtues. And the godmother of madness.Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Marina (1999)

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. Anonymous

It is very strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.Elizabeth Taylor, A Wreath of Roses (1949)

All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.Anonymous

At the gate of patience there is no crowding. Moroccan saying

He who has waited long enough will wait for ever.Samuel Beckett, Malone Dies (1951)

Patience and diligence, like faith, remove mountains.William Penn, Some Fruits of Solitude in Reflections and Maxims (1901)

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.Anonymous

Patience with others is love, patience with self is hope, patience with God is faith. Anonymous

The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.Anonymous

The principle part of faith is patience.Anonymous

Patience is the glue that binds together the true values of persistence, acceptance, and serenity.Aiden Sisko, The Ultimate Guide on Developing Patience

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape one hundred days of sorrow.Chinese Proverb

If you feel like you’re losing everything, remember that trees lose their leaves every year and they still stand tall and wait for better days to come.Anonymous

He that can have Patience, can have what he will.Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard (1736)

Slow down and everything you are chasing will come around and catch you.Anonymous

We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.Anonymous

There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honours too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.Jean de La Bruyère, Les Caractères (1688)

The conclusion is, not that hardships are desirable, but that virtue is desirable, which enables us patiently to endure hardships.Seneca the Younger, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXVII: On Ill-Health and Endurance of Suffering as translated by Richard Mott Gummere.

We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.Abraham Lincoln, Last public address (April 11, 1865)

Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.Anonymous

All good things require patience.Geppetto, Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022)

Beware the fury of a patient man.John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel (1681)

How poor are they that have not Patience? What wound did ever heal but by degrees?William Shakespeare, Othello (1622)

Our patience will achieve more than force.Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

Patience is cultivated in the storms of your own heart and mind.Christina Feldman, Compassion (2003)

Patience is a bitter plant, but it has sweet fruit.German Proverb

One minute of patience, ten years of peace.Greek Proverb

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.Benjamin Disraeli, Contarini Fleming (1832)

Patience is the companion of wisdom.Anonymous

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.John Ruskin, The Two Paths (1859)

A man with a silver spoon may get his share of supporters, but he can never be an inspiration for somebody! Patience and hard work are the key to every man’s success.Anonymous

Business is a sprint until you find an opportunity, then it’s the patience of a marathon runner.Anonymous

Work hard. And have patience. Because no matter who you are, you’re going to get hurt in your career and you have to be patient to get through the injuries.Anonymous

Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.Samuel Johnson, Rasselas (1856)

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.Anonymous