It's not that I'm so smart it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Albert EinsteinKnow your own happiness. Want for nothing but patience - or give it a more fascinating name: Call it hope.
Jane AustenOur patience will achieve more than our force.
Edmund BurkeHeaven grant us patience with a man in love.
Rudyard KiplingHumility is attentive patience.
Simone WeilFor 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.
John BurroughsPatience 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 BlakeOur 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.
Joseph AddisonPatience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.
Soren KierkegaardAll commend patience but none can endure to suffer.
Thomas FullerIt takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss, volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.
George SantayanaPatience, 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 BierceThe 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.
Ralph MarstonHow many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.
Elbert HubbardPatience 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 ChaplinThe 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 HubbardPatience is bitter but its fruit is sweet.
Jean-Jacques RousseauAbused 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 CoelhoThe key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.
Arnold H. GlasowWriting is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.
Herman HesseEveryone can perform magic, everyone can reach his goals, if he is able to think, if he is able to wait, if he is able to fast.
Herman HesseI 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 BabaMeekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.
Ambrose BiercePatience. 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 ObamaWhen traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.
Helen HayesI have not the smarts or patience for political office.
Henry RollinsI do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught all the world would be wise since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning understanding patience love openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
Joseph AddisonI 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 CaesarNo I will be the pattern of all patience, I will say nothing.
William ShakespeareOne 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