"Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears." Barbara Johnson

"Just keep going--no feeling is final." Rainer Maria Rilke

"In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience." W.B. Prescott

"All human power is a compound of time and patience." Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850)

"Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience." George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon

"Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience." Unknown




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

"How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?" Paul Sweeney

"You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance." Franklin P. Jones

"The Great Way has no gate. There are a thousand paths to it." Wu-men

"Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence." Hal Borland, Countryman: A Summary of Belief

"How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?" Paul Sweeney

“Talent is long patience.” Gustave Flaubert

“To lose patience is to lose the battle.” Mahatma Gandhi

“Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Patience is also a form of action.” Auguste Rodin, sculptor (1840-1917)

“With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.” Chinese proverb

“The greatest assassin of life is haste, the desire to reach things before the right time which means overreaching them.” Juan Ramon Jimenez

“The willow knows what the storm does not: that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.” Blood of the Martyr

“Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will be powerless to vex your mind.” Leonardo da Vinci

“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.” Leo Tolstoy

“Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.” Eknath Easwaran