1,945 Quotes About Patience

we make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers

If that should not be, cousin, I say: patience and shuffle the cards.

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.

The disciples of a patient Saviour should be patient themselves.

The Scriptures contain many stories of people who waited years or even decades before the Lord's promises came to pass. What modern believers can learn from the patience of biblical saints like Abraham, Joseph, David, and Paul is that waiting upon the Lord has eternal rewards.

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

My son, observe the postage stamp! Its usefulness depends upon its ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.

Anyhow, a philosophical turn of thought now was not amiss, else one's patience would have given out almost at the harbour entrance. The term of her probation was eight days.

When the precipitancy of a man's wishes hurries on his ideas ninety times faster than the vehicle he rides in--woe be to truth!