It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.
Albert EinsteinHe that can have patience can have what he will.
Benjamin FranklinKnow your own happiness. Want for nothing but patience - or give it a more fascinating name: Call it hope.
Jane AustenPatience is the companion of wisdom.
Saint AugustineHeaven grant us patience with a man in love.
Rudyard KiplingHumility is attentive patience.
Simone WeilPatience is all the strength that man needs.
Sai BabaGenius is eternal patience.
MichelangeloIt is an easy thing to talk of patience to the afflicted.
William BlakePatience is the support of weakness, impatience the ruin of strength.
Charles Caleb ColtonIt is strange that the years teach us patience, that the shorter our time the greater our capacity for waiting.
Elizabeth TaylorPatience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.
Soren KierkegaardEndurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty.
John RuskinYou can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
Franklin Pierce AdamsAll commend patience but none can endure to suffer.
Thomas FullerThe two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
Leo TolstoyIt takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss, volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.
George SantayanaThe greatest prayer is patience
BuddhaPatience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
Napoleon HillAdopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo EmersonPatience n. A minor form of dispair disguised as a virtue.
Ambrose BiercePatience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
Thomas HuxleyEndurance is patience concentrated.
Thomas CarlyleI do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.
Charlie ChaplinHave courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones, and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
Victor HugoLet him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.
Baltasar GracianThe marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens, unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
George WashingtonWho ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
Francis BaconLack of pep is often mistaken for patience.
Kin HubbardAbused patience turns to fury.
Thomas FullerFortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
Laurence J. PeterAll through my life, I have been tested. My will has been tested, my courage has been tested, my strength has been tested. Now my patience and endurance are being tested.
Muhammad AliThe two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.
Paulo CoelhoWithout patience, we will learn less in life. We will see less. We will feel less. We will hear less. Ironically, rush and more usually mean less.
Mother TeresaTo lose patience is to lose the battle.
Mahatma GandhiWriting is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.
Herman HesseI have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
Lao TzuI have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared that I, who am not patient, am patient.
Gertrude SteinHave faith and patience. Then I will be always with you wherever you are.
Sai BabaIf 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.
Mahatma GandhiMeekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.
Ambrose BierceEven a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
Carl JungPatience. Doctors need more patience, not patients.
Sai BabaHow poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
William ShakespeareWe have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.
Francois de La RochefoucauldAnd I love that even in the toughest moments when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass and it seems like all is lost - Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother he just keeps getting up and moving forward... with patience and wisdom and courage and grace.
Michelle ObamaI have not the smarts or patience for political office.
Henry RollinsI think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean there's a certain patience a certain discipline I think that religion helps you achieve.
George W. BushIt is easier to find men who will volunteer to die than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.
Julius CaesarLet nothing disturb thee, Let nothing dismay thee, All thing pass, God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for. He who has God Finds he lacks nothing: God alone suffices.
Saint Teresa of AvilaOne can imbibe those lessons only to the extent of one's patience and intelligent skill.
Sai BabaTo bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.
Thomas AquinasA wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
MoliereWhere there is charity and wisdom there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation there is neither anxiety nor doubt.
Francis of Assisi