Be Patient With These 20 Patience Quotes

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance

1. Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come. -Robert H. Schuller 

2. Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. -John Quincy Adams 

3. Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. -Ralph Waldo Emerson 

4. Patience is also a form of action. -Auguste Rodin 

5. One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life. -Chinese Proverb 

6. Patience is bitter but its fruit is sweet. - French Proverb 

7. Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily. -Friedrich Schiller 

8. He that can have patience can have what he will. -Benjamin Franklin 

9. Patience and the passage of time do more than strength and fury. -Jean de La Fontaine 

10. Our patience will achieve more than our force. -Edmund Burke 

11. Patience is power; with time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown. -Chinese proverb 

12. Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success. -Brian Adams 

13. Patience is the companion of wisdom. -Saint Augustine 

14. Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew. -Saint Francis de Sales 

15. There are two types of patience. One is exercised in hard work and the other in idleness. Patience with hard work is the one that moves mountains. Patience in idleness moves nothing, not even cobwebs. - Israelmore Ayivor 

16. Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Have the patience to wait! Be still and allow the mud to settle. - Lao Tzu 

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

18. Patience strengthens the spirit, sweetens the temper, stifles anger, extinguishes envy, subdues pride, bridles the tongue. - George Horne 

19. Your dream is only possible through a clear intention and patience. - Bryant McGill 

20. If a person shows anger to you, and you show anger in return, the result is disaster. If you nurse hatred, you will never be happy, even in the lap of luxury. By contrast, if you control your anger and show its opposite - love, compassion, tolerance, and patience - then not only do you remain in peace, but gradually the anger of others also will diminish. - Dalai Lama XIV