“I'm terrible with patience.”
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.
“A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.”
“I'm terrible with patience.”
“It is strange that the years teach us patience that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.”
“Genius is eternal patience.”
“Patience is the companion of wisdom.”
“If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.”
“If I could have one prayer answered, I would pray for patience. I move so fast sometimes. I try to slow down.”
“I think patience is a skill and I wish I had it.”
“A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.”
“Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.”
“Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.”
“Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.”
“Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.”
“Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.”
“The Scriptures contain many stories of people who waited years or even decades before the Lord's promises came to pass. What modern believers can learn from the patience of biblical saints like Abraham, Joseph, David, and Paul is that waiting upon the Lord has eternal rewards.”
“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”