65 Inspirational Patience Quotes to Cultivate Calm and Strength

"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."

- John Quincy Adams

"Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown."

- Soren Kierkegaard

"This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don't get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can't do anything, don't get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it's ready to come undone. You have to realize it's going to be a long process and that you'll work on things slowly, one at a time."

- Haruki Murakami

"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time."

- Leo Tolstoy

"He that can have patience can have what he will."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Good things come to those who wait."

- Anonymous

"Our patience will achieve more than our force."

- Edmund Burke

"One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life."

- Chinese Proverb

"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud."

- 1 Corinthians 13

"The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it."

- Arnold H. Glasow

"Patience is not passive. It is concentrated strength."

- Bruce Lee

"Patience can’t be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it."

- Eknath Easwaran

"The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen."

- Ralph Marston

"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

"Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that is patience."

- Leo Tolstoy

"Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself."

- Saint Francis de Sales

"I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures."

- Lao Tzu

"With love and patience, nothing is impossible."

- Daisaku Ikeda

"To lose patience is to lose the battle."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Patience is the companion of wisdom."

- Saint Augustine

"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting."

- Joyce Meyer

"Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there someday."

- A. A. Milne

"Patience is a key element of success."

- Bill Gates

"Patience is the best remedy for every trouble."

- Plautus

"Have patience with all things, But, first of all, with yourself."

- Saint Francis de Sales

"Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness, they are signs of strength."

- Dalai Lama

"Wisdom is patience waiting for the right moment."

- Jack Hyles

"With patience a ruler may be persuaded, and a soft tongue will break a bone."

- Proverbs 25:15

"Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement, and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success."

- Brian Adams

"Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear, and obstacles vanish."

- John Quincy Adams

"Being a good teacher takes patience; being a good doctor also takes patience. In fact, if you want to excel in anything, master any skill, patience is an asset."

- Eknath Easwaran

"A waiting person is a patient person. The word patience means the willingness to stay where we are and live the situation out to the full in the belief that something hidden there will manifest itself to us."

- Henri J.M. Nouwen

"Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset. What is anything in life compared to peace of soul?"

- Francis de Sales

"There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience."

- Jean de la Bruyere

"Patience is not the ability to wait. Patience is to be calm no matter what happens, constantly take action to turn it to positive growth opportunities, and have faith to believe that it will all work out in the end while you are waiting."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane."

- Criss Jami

"Learning patience can be a difficult experience, but once conquered, you will find life is easier."

- Catherine Pulsifer

"Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious."

- Phillips Brooks

"Two things define you: your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything."

- George Bernard Shaw

"Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength."

- Charles Caleb Colton

"Patience gives your spouse permission to be human. It understands that everyone fails. When a mistake is made, it chooses to give them more time that they deserve to correct it."

- Stephen Kendrick

"The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit."

- Moliere

"It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience."

- Julius Caesar

"Patience is the key to paradise."

- Turkish Proverb

"Patience is an act of love every day, when you are patient with your toddlers, or your husband who can’t remember to put the toilet seat down."

- Sharon Hodde Miller

"It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you."

- Charlotte Brontë

"Patience and diligence, like faith, remove mountains."

- William Penn

"The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones."

- Solomon Ibn Gabirol

"By staying calm, you increase your resistance against any kind of storms."

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

"Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent."

- Billy Graham

"Be patient. Patience is the mother of all virtues."

- Hrithik Roshan

"Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour."

- Ovid

"A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else."

- George Savile

"The secret of patience is to do something else in the meantime."

- Croft M. Pentz

"Sometimes things aren’t clear right away. That’s where you need to be patient and persevere and see where things lead."

- Mary Pierce

"You can’t have genius without patience."

- Margaret Deland

"Hard work combined with patience is a superpower."

- Maxime Lagacé

"Patience attracts happiness; it brings near that which is far."

- Swahili Proverb

"We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world."

- Helen Keller

"Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence."

- Hal Borland

"One minute of patience, ten years of peace."

- Greek Proverb

"When you encounter various trials, big or small, be full of joy. They’re opportunities to learn patience."

- Scott Curran

"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Be worthy love, and love will come."

- Louisa May Alcott

"The greatest power is often simple patience."

- E. Joseph Cossman

"It is very strange that the years teach us patience – that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting."

- Elizabeth Taylor

"Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience."

- George Louis de Buffon

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

- W.B. Prescott

"Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit."

- Molière

"It is very strange…that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting."

- Elizabeth Taylor

"Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in your mind."

- David G. Allen

"Learning patience can be a difficult experience, but once conquered you will find life is easier."

- Catherine Pulsifer

"Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty."

- John Ruskin

"Patience is the art of concealing your impatience."

- Guy Kawasaki

"The older I get, the more I value my ability to be patient."

- Clint Eastwood

"Patience is a virtue; virtue is a grace."

- Jacob Rees-Mogg

"Good books contain ideas that are beautiful or true or challenging. They raise subjects we may not think to discuss with a child in our everyday conversations."

- Ginger Blomberg

"Patience is the best medicine."

- John Florio

"Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it’s cowardice."

- George Jackson

"Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity."

- Thomas Hardy

"Patience is the art of hoping."

- Luc de Clapiers

"There's no advantage to hurrying through life."

- Masashi Kishimoto

"Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request."

- Philip Stanhope

"I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end."

- Margaret Thatcher

"Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind."

"Patience is when you’re supposed to get mad, but you choose to understand."

"Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time."

"Patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting."

"Patience is also a form of action."