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.

“Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.”

Kin Hubbard

More Patience Quotes

“My impression is that most women public service workers have a long fuse. Precisely because they care so deeply about services, more than anyone, they still want to find a sensible and fair negotiated agreement. But their patience has run out.”

Frances O'Grady

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

Andrew Greeley

“I think patience is a skill and I wish I had it.”

David Duchovny

“With love and patience, nothing is impossible.”

Daisaku Ikeda

“Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.”

Ambrose Bierce

“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.”

Janet Napolitano

“There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance.”

Cesar Chavez

“Our patience will achieve more than our force.”

Edmund Burke

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

Helen Keller

“Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.”

Laurence J. Peter

“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

“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.”

Ingrid Newkirk

“I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.”

Gertrude Stein

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

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