Patience Quotes

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.

“Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.”

Peter Marshall

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“I have all the patience in the world about Sirens. For me it's not a Grateful Dead project, it's a Me project.”

Jerry Garcia

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

Arnold H. Glasow

“Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.”

Francis Bacon

“The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And yes, there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It's called being human.”

Elizabeth Edwards

“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.”

Charles Stanley

“You know, I lose patience really easily I'd rather shop in the grocery store than in the department store. I can pick an apple like nobody's business.”

Gail Simmons

“If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.”

Hal Borland

“Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.”

Thomas Huxley

“Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?”

Andrew Greeley

“With love and patience, nothing is impossible.”

Daisaku Ikeda

“How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?”

William Shakespeare

“Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.”

Matthew Arnold

“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.”

Elbert Hubbard

“Luck is a component that a lot of people in the arts sometimes fail to recognise: that you can have talent, perseverance, patience, but without luck you will not have a successful career.”

Bryan Cranston

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