Being Patience Quotes

• Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Patience, Spring, Decisions You Make

  Robert H. Schuller (1993). “Robert H Schuller: The Inspirational Writings : Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do/Tough Minded Faith for Tender Hearted People”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.

  Saadi

  Sports, Patience, Difficult And Easy

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• Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.

  Corazon Aquino

  Inspirational, Faith, Patience

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• Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

  James Russell Lowell

  Patience, Passion, Heart

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.166, Delphi Classics

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• I do oppose
  My patience to his fury, and am arm'd
  To suffer, with a quietness of spirit,
  The very tyranny and rage of his.

  William Shakespeare

  Patience, Suffering, Arms

  William Shakespeare (1863). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.343

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• Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Patience, Be Patient, Passive

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• Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

  John Ruskin

  Beauty, Patience, Perseverance

  John Ruskin, Christine Roth (2004). “The Two Paths”, p.88, Parlor Press LLC

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• Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness.

  Carl Jung

  Happiness, Sad, Happy

  "The Art of Living". Interview with Gordon Young in 1960. "C.G. Jung Speaking". Book edited by William McGuire and R.F.C. Hull, archive.org. 1977.

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  It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Inspirational, Patience, Time

  Elizabeth Taylor (1968). “A wreath of roses”

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• Patience is not just about waiting for something... it's about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.

  Joyce Meyer

  Patience, Attitude, Waiting

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• Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

  Barbara Johnson

  Patience, Optimism, Gears

  Barbara Johnson (2008). “When Your Child Breaks Your Heart: Help for Hurting Moms”, p.134, Revell

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• Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

  Francis Bacon

  Patience, Optimism, Soul

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

  Phillips Brooks

  Patience, Short Life, Life Is Too Short

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• There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Patience, Men, Long

  "Les Caracteres". Book by Jean de la Bruyere (Des jugements, aphorism 108), 1688.

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• Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that is patience. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspiring, Moving On, Patience

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• Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is "timing" it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Inspirational, Life, Patience

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• Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

  William Shakespeare

  Patience, Tired, Mares

  William Shakespeare (1998). “Henry V”, p.93, Penguin

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• The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Life, Motivational, Patience

  Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1961). “War and peace”

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• I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Patience, Perseverance, Powerful

  In Observer 4 Apr. 1989

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

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Patience, Wisdom

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.111, Om Books International

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• I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

  Edith Sitwell

  Patience, Stupid, Ignorance

  "The Last Years of a Rebel: A Memoir of Edith Sitwell". Book by Elizabeth Salter, 1967.

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

  William Shakespeare

  Patience, Degrees, Poor

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 2, sc. 3, l. [379]

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• Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Patience, Be Patient, Reap

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• Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.

  Joyce Meyer

  Motivational, Patience, Waiting

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• Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Patience, Building Up, Needs

  Eknath Easwaran (2009). “Renewal: A Little Book of Courage and Hope”, p.29, Nilgiri Press

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