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Patience

Find patience or it will never find you. – Mike Dolan, @HawaiianLife

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

Beware the fury of a patient man. – John Dryden, Absolam and Achitophel, 1680

Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request. – Lord Chesterfield

Patience: A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue. – Ambrose Bierce

An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains. РDutch Proverb [Quoted in P.J. Harrebom̩e, Spreekwoordenboek der Nederlandsche t

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 and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. – John Quincy Adams

Patience is the companion of wisdom. – St. Augustine

Patience is also a form of action. – Auguste Rodin

One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life. – Chinese Proverb

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

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success. – Napoleon Hill

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world. – Helen Keller

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees? – William Shakespeare

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures. – Joseph Addison

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Abused patience turns to fury. – Thomas Fuller

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

Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself. – Saint Francis de Sales