Quotes on Patience

Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

Never was the victory of patience more complete than in the early church. The anvil broke the hammer by bearing all the blows that the hammer could place upon it. The patience of the saints was stronger than the cruelty of tyrants.

Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

And you very soon find out, if you have not found it out before, that patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

We need to strengthen such inner values as contentment, patience and tolerance, as well as compassion for others. Keeping in mind that it is expressions of affection rather than money and power that attract real friends, compassion is the key to ensuring our own well-being.

We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent

Do not be impatient with your seemingly slow progress. Do not try to run faster than you presently can. If you are studying, reflecting and trying, you are making progress whether you are aware of it or not. A traveler walking the road in the darkness of night is still going forward. Someday, some way, everything will break open, like the natural unfolding of a rosebud.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

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

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.

Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.

When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets?