1,945 Quotes About Patience

Be the worst you can be: life's too long for patience and virtue.

This life of ours can feel an awful lot like waiting.

There is a law somewhere that says that when one person is thoroughly smitten with the other, the other must unavoidably be smitten as well. Amor ch’a null’amato amar perdona. Love, which exempts no one who's loved from loving, Francesca's words in the Inferno. Just wait and be hopeful. I was hopeful, though this was perhaps what I had wanted all along. To wait forever.

You have to be a real good fool, to fool the whole foolish world!

Patience is not waiting; it is a quality of waiting.

I had no time for patience. It was a dull, slow-witted thing, so foreign to me that I couldn’t even figure out what it was that people did while they were being patient. You know? Patience isn’t even a verb.

Sometimes the real action in a conversation takes place in the pauses, when nothing at all is being said.

You need not live your entire life now, be patient. If you work for things you want, you will find them. Change takes time and you can’t expect everything that you want to arrive immediately. Work hard, be patient.

Things will happen when they should. When an event is forced, its outcome would be less than optimal.