47 Inspiring Quotes On Patience

In our fast-paced world, patience often feels like a rare virtue, one that requires nurturing and reflection. Whether you're navigating personal challenges, professional hurdles, or simply seeking solace in a busy life, patience can be a powerful ally. It's a quality that encourages mindfulness, understanding, and a deeper appreciation for life's journey rather than just its destination. In this collection, we've gathered 47 inspiring quotes on patience from thinkers, leaders, and visionaries who have recognized the strength and serenity that comes from cultivating this timeless virtue. Let these words provide you with encouragement and insight as you cultivate patience in your own life.

1. “A waiting person is a patient person. The word patience means the willingness to stay where we are and live the situation out to the full in the belief that something hidden there will manifest itself to us.” - Henri J.M. Nouwen

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

3. “I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.” - Margaret Thatcher

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

5. “He was the crazy one who had painted himself black and defeated the world.She was the book thief without the words.Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like rain.” - Markus Zusak

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

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

8. “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

9. “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

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

11. “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

12. “The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.” - Leo Tolstoy

13. “Well, we must wait for the future to show.” - Virginia Woolf

14. “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

15. “You are the patient one, Mademoiselle,' said Poirot to Miss Debenham.She shrugged her shoulders slightly. 'What else can one do?'You are a philosopher, Mademoiselle.'That implies a detached attitude. I think my attitude is more selfish. I have learned to save myself useless emotion.” - Agatha Christie

16. “Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.” - Molière

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

18. “Impatient men are generous ones. Or haven't you learned that by now?” - Megan Chance

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

20. “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

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

22. “Never was the victory of patience more complete than in the early church. The anvil broke the hammer by bearing all the blows that the hammer could place upon it. The patience of the saints was stronger than the cruelty of tyrants.” - Charles H. Spurgeon

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

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

25. “Patience is a virtue, but there comes a moment when you must stop being patient and take the day by the throat and shake it. If it fights back; fine. I'd rather end up bloody at the end of the day, then unhurt with no progress made, no knowledge gained. I'd rather have a no, then nothing. I'd forgotten that about myself.” - Laurell K. Hamilton

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

27. “Patience, increasing patience,Is all we needTo be victoriousIn the battlefield of life.” - Sri Chinmoy

28. “The same word passed through three minds, simultaneously, philosophical, fatalistic, the eternal refuge of the Italian: Pazienza....” - Violet Trefusis

29. “Difficult times are pregnant with glory moments just waiting to be birthed in the lives of those willing to labor through the pain.” - Sharon Jaynes

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

31. “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.

32. “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

33. “Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time.” - Habeeb Akande

34. “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

35. “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

36. “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

37. “Bread – like real love – took time, cultivation, strong loving hands and patience. It lived, rising and growing to fruition only under the most perfect circumstances.” - Melissa Hill

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

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

40. “Patience is the training in abiding with the restlessness of our energy and letting things evolve at their own speed.” - Pema Chodron

41. “You. You are standing in your own way. And that means whatever it is scares you. It won't forever...but take your time. Nothing good was ever rushed.” - Suzanne Palmieri

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

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

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

45. “God often grants in a moment what He has long denied.” - Thomas A. Kempis

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

47. “We must unceasingly ask for [perseverance] by making use of the means which God has taught us for obtaining it: prayer, fasting, almsgiving, frequenting the sacraments, association with good companions, and hearing and reading Holy Scripture.” - St. Francis de Sales