Patience is better than wisdom: an ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains. All men praise patience, but few enough can practise it; it is a medicine which is good for all diseases, and therefore every old woman recommends it; but it is not every garden that grows the herbs to make it with. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834–1892), “On Patience” (John Ploughman)

Patience is not active; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength. – Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

Patience is the ability to count down before you blast off. – Author Unknown