“If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.”
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.
“And we ask the American people to play an important part of our layered defense. We ask for cooperation, patience and a commitment to vigilance in the face of a determined enemy.”
“If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.”
“A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.”
“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.”
“Because I'm the author of my screenplays I know what I'm looking for. It's true that I can be stubborn in demanding that I get what I want, but it's also a question of working with patience and love.”
“We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.”
“Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.”
“There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them.”
“I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there's a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.”
“Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.”
“Patience is the support of weakness impatience the ruin of strength.”
“All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.”
“Patience is the companion of wisdom.”
“Everyone is given one gift, a reason for being, and it's our obligation to do something with it. Obviously, it's a challenge - but if you're not taking the bull by the horns, I have no patience for you. You're just taking up space.”
“Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.”
“I think patience is a skill and I wish I had it.”