It's not that I'm so smart it's just that I stay with problems longer.

Seek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls.

Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection.

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

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Know your own happiness. Want for nothing but patience - or give it a more fascinating name: Call it hope.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Humility is attentive patience.

For anything worth having one must pay the price, and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

Patience is all the strength that man needs.

Genius is eternal patience.

It is an easy thing to talk of patience to the afflicted.

Patience is the support of weakness, impatience the ruin of strength.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments, but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

It is strange that the years teach us patience, that the shorter our time the greater our capacity for waiting.

Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.

Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty.

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