103 Inspiring Patience Quotes

In a world that often moves at a breakneck pace, patience remains an invaluable virtue, guiding us through life’s challenges with grace and resilience. As we navigate personal growth, relationships, and everyday hurdles, patience provides the steady hand that helps us wait for the right moment and understand the rhythm of life. This collection of 103 inspiring patience quotes is designed to offer wisdom, comfort, and perspective, reminding us of the power that comes with waiting and trusting the process. Whether you’re seeking encouragement during trying times or simply looking to cultivate deeper understanding, these quotes will resonate as timeless reminders of the strength found in patience.

1. “He that can have patience can have what he will.” - Benjamin Franklin

2. “Talent is a long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation.” - Gustave Flaubert

3. “Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.” - Aristotle

4. “Our patience will achieve more than our force.” - Edmund Burke

5. “Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.” - Rainer Maria Rilke

6. “Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.” - Neil Gaiman

7. “Patience never wants Wonder to enter the house: because Wonder is a wretched guest. It uses all of you but is not careful with what is most fragile or irreplaceable. If it breaks you, it shrugs and moves on. Without asking, Wonder often brings along dubious friends: doubt, jealousy, greed. Together they take over; rearrange the furniture in every one of your rooms for their own comfort. They speak odd languages but make no attempt to translate for you. They cook strange meals in your heart that leave odd tastes and smells. When they finally go are you happy or miserable? Patience is always left holding the broom.” - Jonathan Carroll

8. “Why is patience so important?""Because it makes us pay attention.” - Paulo Coelho

9. “Prayer of an Anonymous Abbess:Lord, thou knowest better than myself that I am growing older and will soon be old. Keep me from becoming too talkative, and especially from the unfortunate habit of thinking that I must say something on every subject and at every opportunity.Release me from the idea that I must straighten out other peoples' affairs. With my immense treasure of experience and wisdom, it seems a pity not to let everybody partake of it. But thou knowest, Lord, that in the end I will need a few friends.Keep me from the recital of endless details; give me wings to get to the point.Grant me the patience to listen to the complaints of others; help me to endure them with charity. But seal my lips on my own aches and pains -- they increase with the increasing years and my inclination to recount them is also increasing.I will not ask thee for improved memory, only for a little more humility and less self-assurance when my own memory doesn't agree with that of others. Teach me the glorious lesson that occasionally I may be wrong.Keep me reasonably gentle. I do not have the ambition to become a saint -- it is so hard to live with some of them -- but a harsh old person is one of the devil's masterpieces.Make me sympathetic without being sentimental, helpful but not bossy. Let me discover merits where I had not expected them, and talents in people whom I had not thought to possess any. And, Lord, give me the grace to tell them so.Amen” - Anonymous

10. “Every age, and especially our own, stands in need of a Diogenes; but the difficulty is in finding men who have the courage to be one, and men who have the patience to endure one.” - Jean le Rond d'Alembert

11. “The 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 Coelho

12. “An eternity is any moment opened with patience.” - Noah BenShea

13. “Crushed again!” - W.S. Gilbert

14. “There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.” - Swami Sivananda

15. “Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement.” - Vera Nazarian

16. “No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God . . . and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.” - Orson F. Whitney

17. “Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.” - Barbara Johnson

18. “All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.” - Franz Kafka

19. “Inner peace is impossible without patience. Wisdom requires patience. Spiritual growth implies the mastery of patience. Patience allows the unfolding of destiny to proceed at its won unhurried pace.” - Brian Weiss

20. “If you're serious about sanctification, you can expect to experience heart-wrenching moments that try your faith, your endurance, and your patience.” - Sheri L. Dew

21. “Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy. Peace does not dwell in outward things, but in the heart prepared to wait trustfully and quietly on Him who has all things safely in His hands.” - Elisabeth Elliott

22. “I have patience in all things – as far as the antechamber.” - Gustave Flaubert

23. “Love does not cost anything. Kind words and deeds do not cost anything. The real beauty of the world is equal for everyone to see. It was given by God equally to all, without restrictions. Everyone, was given a beautiful vehicle in which to express love to others. Feelings are free to express and give to ourselves and each other through our willingness to give and care. What is complicated about this... Why have we made others feel they have to climb mountains and swim oceans in order to make a difference. All we need to understand my friends, is that human life was given equally to us all, not partially but in totality. The sun was given to all. It does not shine on the few. So, just has nature is indifferent to our station or situation, we need to know that we are all equal. We need to focus on the things that are constant and not place our values on things that can be blown away with the next, great, wind.Value life in what ever house it dwells. For when it comes time that we are all stripped to bare bones before the divine and facing eternity, we will understand that the only law we were meant to follow, was to love ourselves and each other. Nothing more...nothing less.” - Carla Jo Masterson

24. “Try looking at your mind as a wayward puppy that you are trying to paper train. You don't drop-kick a puppy into the neighbor's yard every time it piddles on the floor. You just keep bringing it back to the newspaper.” - Anne Lamott

25. “I’m saying that I can wait. For now. But when things get back to normal—assuming that ever happens—I want my shot. We can make each other happy, Faythe. I know it. And I’m done walking away from things I want just because they don’t come easily. You’re worth the work.” - Rachel Vincent

26. “I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.” - John Milton

27. “Life it too short to deal with crazy people.” - Karen E. Quinones Miller

28. “All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them.” - Marcus Aurelius

29. “Those speak foolishly who ascribe their anger or their impatience to such as offend them or to tribulation. Tribulation does not make people impatient, but proves that they are impatient. So everyone may learn from tribulation how his heart is constituted.” - Martin Luther

30. “Patience is not passive waiting. Patience is active acceptance of the process required to attain your goals and dreams.” - Ray A. Davis

31. “Your least favorite virtue, or nominee for the most overrated one? Faith. Closely followed—in view of the overall shortage of time—by patience.” - Christopher Hitchens

32. “Regarding vengeance and arch-enemies, one must not only be timely but prideful, and pride exacts propriety.” - Adam Levin

33. “Lark: "You shouldn't yell at her." Frostpine: "Of course I should. Gods bless us all, Lark, but our Water dedicates would try the patience of a stone." — Dedicates Lark and Frostpine when the latter found out that the Water Temple had run out of warded boxes” - Tamora Pierce

34. “What good has impatience ever brought? It has only served as the mother of mistakes and the father of irritation.” - Steve Maraboli

35. “Even the best inborn potentialities for achievement do not render unnecessary patient and persistent practice.” - Ralph Alfred Habas

36. “There's no advantage to hurrying through life." -Shikamaru Nara” - Masashi Kishimoto

37. “He who can have patience can have what he will.” - Benjamin Franklin

38. “A stumble may prevent a fall.” - Thomas Fuller

39. “Patience gives your spouse permission to be human. It understands that everyone fails. When a mistake is made, it chooses to give them more time that they deserve to correct it. It gives you the ability to hold on during the rough times in your relationship rather than bailing out under the pressure.” - Stephen Kendrick

40. “Perfect love is perfectly patient.” - Neal A. Maxwell

41. “There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room, and to have a discussion coolly waived when you feel that justice is all on your own side is even more exasperating in marriage than in philosophy.” - George Eliot

42. “The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.” - Arnold H. Glasgow

43. “We need patient people who are able to endure the toughest disciplines.” - Samael Aun Weor

44. “Sólo con una ardiente paciencia conquistaremos la espléndida ciudad que dará luz, justicia y dignidad a todos los hombres. Así la poesía no habrá cantado en vano.” - Pablo Neruda

45. “He felt the comfort of being part of an eternal cycle symbolized by the gold strips on either side of the black mourning band he wore. Light, dark, light. The dark was just an interval.” - Jack Campbell

46. “One who is patient glows with an inner radiance.” - Allan Lokos

47. “And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough.” - William Faulkner

48. “To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.” - Criss Jami

49. “Patience is like ice cold water runing truth your veins, but our love will be immense” - Alejandro Perez

50. “Patience is supported & nurtured by a quality of forgiveness.” - Allan Lokos

51. “When we get impatient because something is taking too long, we should remember that Life waits on us a thousand times more than we wait on Life.” - Laura Teresa Marquez

52. “Because you don't learn anything unless you can find the patience to read. TV takes that away from you. It robs you from your mind.” - Markus Zusak

53. “Patience is the direct antithesis of anger.” - Allan Lokos

54. “Knowing trees, I came to realize, understand and appreciate the act of patience.” - Ogwo David Emenike

55. “In the West, they will either accept or reject. In the East, they will always accept also provide guidance and patience.” - Santosh Kalwar

56. “You were patient, but I worried that your very patience tempted Kevin to try it.” - Lionel Shriver

57. “Even a snail will eventually reach its destination.” - Gail Tsukiyama

58. “She knew that she must sit quietly and patiently and, like her beloved butterflies, eventually he would come to rest.” - Patricia O'Sullivan

59. “I have seen what comes of being patient," Amanda said with a boding look. "And I have no opinion of it.""What does come of it?" Inquired Sir Gareth."Nothing!” - Georgette Heyer

60. “now i can get them teeth” - William Faulkner

61. “No beating yourself up. That’s not allowed. Be patient with yourself. It took you years to form the bad habits of thought that you no longer want. It will take a littletime to form new and better ones. But I promise you this: Even a slight move in this direction will bring you some peace. The more effort you apply to it, the faster you’ll find your bliss, but you’ll experience rewards immediately.” - Holly Mosier

62. “Aura, I'm really patient, but I'm not a bloody saint.” - Jeri Smith-Ready

63. “It almost seems as though this roiling world is conspiring to test our patience at every turn. In fact, it is. With this in mind, we would be wise to look on our imperfect environment as a teacher rather than an antagonist. It constantly shows us that we need to be patient on an ongoing basis, not just every now and then, if we´re going to realize true inner peace, happiness, and fulfillment.” - Lama Surya Das

64. “I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.” - Rainer Maria Rilke

65. “Brazen it out! Throw away the scabbard! Grit your teeth, buckle down, and die with your boots on! Or in other words, be determined and resolved until you accomplish the thing you set out to accomplish.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

66. “Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that is patience. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.” - Leo Tolstoy

67. “ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.” - Louisa May Alcott

68. “It is in vain for man to endeavor to instruct man in those things which the Holy Spirit alone can teach.” - Pere La Combe

69. “I look in the mirror through the eyes of the child that was me.” - Judy Collins

70. “What is a woman's greatest virtue?Patience.” - India Edghill

71. “We must arm ourselves with patience and wisdom and listen to the poor what they want. This is the best way to avoid the trap of ignorance, ideology and inertia on our side.” - Abhijit V. Banerjee

72. “Truth is patient. It can afford to be for eventually it will have its way.” - Richard Paul Evans

73. “For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching has become a regular habit, until he is able to admit and accept what he finds, and until he patiently and persistently tries to correct what is wrong. – Bill W.” - Bill W.

74. “Patience is the essence of clicking great Photographs!!” - Abhijeet Sawant

75. “Whenever there is love beyond boundaries .... Whenever trust flows deeper than oceans .... Nevertheless, a Trial is born .... You pass that trial, sacred you shall be .... if you don't, your are immortal !!!!” - M.W.Latif

76. “[M]ost people go through life a wee bit disappointed in themselves. I think we all keep a memory of a moment when we missed someone or something, when we could have gone down another path, a happier or better or just a different path. Just because they're in the past doesn't mean you can't treasure the possibilities ... maybe we put down a marker for another time. And now's the time. Now we can do whatever we want to do.” - James Robertson

77. “The distance of a voice, is only a short time away from touch.” - Anthony Liccione

78. “Waiting does not exist in the experience of those who recognize the presence of love wherever they are.” - Alan Cohen

79. “My mothering needed a tad more Mother Theresa and a lot less Lizzy Borden.” - Irene Tomkinson

80. “Patience is learned through waiting” - E'yen A. Gardner

81. “The arrogance of the human mind is too fragile, as well as the patience of the human character. It is because of that, they fail to see the power of mere observation and systematic analysis.” - Lionel Suggs

82. “This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don't get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can't do anything, don't get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it's ready to come undone. You have to realize it's going to be along process and that you'll work on things slowly, one at a time.” - Haruki Murakami

83. “Patience's design flaw became obvious for the first time in my life: the outcome is decided not during the course of play but when the cards are shuffled, before the game even begins. How pointless is that?” - David Mitchell

84. “The Man of Power is one who presides—By persuasion. He uses no demeaning words or behavior, does not manipulate others, appeals to the best in everyone, and respects the dignity andagency of all humankind—men, women, boys, and girls.By long-suffering. He waits when necessary and listens to the humblest or youngest person. He is tolerant of the ideas of others and avoids quick judgments and anger. By gentleness. He uses a smile more often than a frown. He is not gruff or loud or frightening; he does not discipline in anger.By meekness. He is not puffed up, does not dominate conversations, and is willing to conform his will to the will of God.By love unfeigned. He does not pretend. He is sincere, giving honest love without reservation even when others are unlovable.By kindness. He practices courtesy and thoughtfulness in little things as well as in the more obvious things. By pure knowledge. He avoids half-truths and seeks to be empathetic. Without hypocrisy. He practices the principles he teaches. He knows he is not always right and is willing to admit his mistakes and say ‘I’m sorry.'Without guile. He is not sly or crafty in his dealings with others, but is honest and authentic when describing his feelings.” - H. Burke Peterson

85. “You cannot have a moral holiday and remain moral, nor can you have a spiritual holiday and remain spiritual. God wants you to be entirely his, and this means that you have to watch to keep yourself fit. It takes a tremendous amount of time. Some of us expect to “clear the numberless ascensions”* in about two minutes.” - Oswald Chambers

86. “Let the water flow beneath the bridge; let men be men, that is to say, weak, vain, inconstant, unjust, false, and presumptuous; let the world be the world still; you cannot prevent it. Let every one follow his own inclination and habits; you cannot recast them, and the best course is, to let them be as they are and bear with them. Do not think it strange when you witness unreasonableness and injustice; rest in peace in the bosom of God; He sees it all more clearly than you do, and yet permits it. Be content to do quietly and gently what it becomes you to do, and let everything else be to you as though it were not.” - Francois Fenelon

87. “sometimes is good to be in patience, it can be mean understand, sometimes patience can describe as sacrifice , but everytime it hurting ourself” - Tun Teja

88. “The Sage was asked to define good manners? to which he replied, To bear patiently the rude ones.” - Solomon Ibn Gabirol

89. “Products produced cheaply create ugly work lives and ugly households and ugly communities. Profits produced quickly cannot purchase patience and care. Patience is beautiful. Restraint and care are beautiful. Peace is beautiful. A small, diversified organic farm is beautiful.” - Woody Tasch

90. “Give Happiness, Patience, kindness, and Care, and the PAIN goes away.Then only LOVE remains...” - Tsem Tulku Rinpoche

91. “Happiness, honor, and great estate,For those who patiently work and wait.” - J.T. Trowbridge

92. “Like nature, like life. The storm will pass. The night will end. Spring will come.” - Carol Morgan

93. “Annihilate the enemy with acts of kindness only you can afford.” - Suzanne Stroh

94. “God is never in a hurry, but he is always on time.” - Rick Warren

95. “When you are Patient you can be Practical and rationale” - M.Mnzava

96. “Mothers should be very careful what type of boys and men they create, or allow to be created.” - Bryant McGill

97. “Simplify and focus on the good. The beauty of the journey ahead will flourish on its own.” - Erik Tomblin

98. “The acts of daily forbearance, the headache, or toothache, or heavy cold; the tiresome peculiarities of husband or wife, the broken glass...all of these sufferings, small as they are, if accepted lovingly, are most pleasing to God's Goodness.” - St. Francis de Sales

99. “If we walk steadily and faithfully...God will lift us up to greater things.” - St. Francis de Sales

100. “Oppose vigorously any tendency to sadness ... You must persevere. By means of sorrow the enemy tries to make us weary of good works, but if he sees that we don't give them up and that being done in spite of his opposition they have become very meritorious, he will stop troubling us.” - St. Francis de Sales

101. “He would never exhort the faithful to persevere if he were not ready to give them the power to do so.” - St. Francis de Sales

102. “Everybody finds themselves sometimes deficient in what they need, and put to inconvenience ... the richest people may easily be without something they want, and that is practically to suffer poverty. Accept such occurrences cheerfully, rejoice in them, bear them willingly.” - St. Francis de Sales

103. “Real patience is not the same as waiting impatiently for something for a long time. Patience is having patience with patience.” - H.M. Forester