Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience. – Hyman Rickover
Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct. – Phaedrus
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience. – Stanislaw Lec
Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry. – Bret Harte
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. – Lao Tzu
Patience and time do more than strength or passion. – Jean de La Fontaine
He that can have patience can have what he will. – Benjamin Franklin
No, I will be the pattern of all patience I will say nothing. – William Shakespeare
It is strange that the years teach us patience that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting. – Elizabeth Taylor
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. – Leo Tolstoy
Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity. – Sammy Davis, Jr.
Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while. – Ambrose Bierce
Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears. – Barbara Johnson
To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin. – Thomas Aquinas
Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness. – Thomas Huxley
I have not the smarts or patience for political office. – Henry Rollins
Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish. – David Mallet
As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind. – Cleveland Amory
With love and patience, nothing is impossible. – Daisaku Ikeda
Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work. – Peter Marshall
