1,945 Quotes About Patience

Personal discipline is a most powerful character quality and one worthy of dedicating your life to nurturing.

Teams that spend a lot of time learning the tricks of the trade will probably never really learn the trade.

No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.

Forgive me, Lord, for being sharp to a man who sought only to assist me. I ask for your help in being patient with those who believe women helpless.

A man whose wife has done everything he wishes for twenty years can never understand why she so suddenly changes. The woman who for twenty years has been silent, forgiving, smiling, patient, becomes in his eyes a rebel when in the twenty-first year she loses her patience and argues, accuses, demands explanations.Then she is a mutineer against whom every stratagem is permissible. Twenty years of patience have only given her the right to be patient also in the twenty-first.

We can't measure intent by outcome. Only each individual knows their true intent, and if they don't or can't communicate that, we may in some cases never know what their intent was. Being more patient, kind, forgiving gives everyone a bit more grace. Even in the case of ill-intent, we still want to rise above that behavior by not acting, reacting, in the same manner as the person who we were hurt by.

notwithstanding how long the world shall look unconcern to your visions and aspirations in life, never ever stop; it takes just a second for the long sleeping baby to wake up.

You turn friends away before you discover they were good after all; you give up on your dreams before you realize you were very close to your success all that while. Be patient; don’t rush things!

The queen sees me coming, turns toward us and waits, with a killer's patience, for me to reach the chancel steps.