“We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.”
Patience is not passive — it is the active decision to trust the process when every instinct says to force a result. These quotes explore waiting, timing, perseverance, and the quiet strength required to let things unfold.
“If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.”
“We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.”
“Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.”
“Honestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions.”
“Give your dog or cat respect, patience, understanding and love. And if you just change to one vegetarian day a week, that's a wonderful step that will save animal lives. It means you have chosen something kind instead of something cruel.”
“I believe there's too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.”
“How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.”
“Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.”
“All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.”
“Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.”
“He that can have patience can have what he will.”
“Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.”
“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”
“How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?”
“The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.”
“So when I do Chinese cooking, I mix everything together, then the kids have to eat their vegetables. They won't have the patience to pick them out.”