“Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.”
~ Leo Tolstoy
“Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.”
~ Leo Tolstoy
What is the most important lesson life has taught you?
Wait it out, things will always change.
~ Marian Keyes / Guardian
Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.
~ Dragan Todorović
My biggest lesson is to be more patient. I used to worry about things but now I don’t. I’ve realised there’s a rhyme and reason for everything.
~ Jean Miller, 94 year-old / Guardian, 23rd February 2017
“When I get frustrated I try to take the long view,” she says. “I try to imagine how I would feel 50 or 100 years from now, if I came back and I was looking at this whole story.”
~ Jennifer Doudna / Financial Times, January 31st 2020
“There’s always a way if you’re not in a hurry.”
~ Paul Theroux
By diligence and patience, the mouse bit in two the cable.
~ Benjamin Franklin
It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.
~ Julius Caesar
“I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.”
~ Lao Tzu
“Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.”
~ John Quincy Adams
“I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.”
~ John Milton
“It is very strange that the years teach us patience – that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.”
~ Elizabeth Taylor
“Without patience, we will learn less in life. We will see less. We will feel less. We will hear less. Ironically, rush and more usually mean less.”
~ Mother Teresa
“Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and try to have patience, if you can.”
~ J.R.R. Tolkien
“Let nothing perturb you, nothing frighten you. All things pass. God does not change. Patience achieves everything.”
~ Saint Teresa of Avila
“If you can cultivate the right attitude, your enemies are your best spiritual teachers because their presence provides you with the opportunity to enhance and develop tolerance, patience and understanding.”
~ Dalai Lama XIV
“Do you have the patience to wait until your mud settles and the water is clear?”
~ Lao Tzu
“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”
~ Leo Tolstoy
“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”
~ Aristotle
“Patience is a conquering virtue.”
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
“He that can have patience can have what he will.”
~ Benjamin Franklin
“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.”
~ A. A. Milne / Winnie-the-Pooh
“A jug fills drop by drop.”
~ Buddha
“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.”
~ Buddha
“A fool’s bolt is soon shot.”
~ William Shakespeare
“There is no fortitude like patience, just as there is no destructive emotion worse than hatred. Therefore, practice patience and tolerance.”
~ Dalai Lama
“One who is able to practice patience can be called a great person who has strength.”
~ Buddha
“The greatest, most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.”
~ Carl Jung
“The two prime movers in the Universe are Time and Luck.”
~ Kurt Vonnegut
“Beware the fury of a patient man.”
~ John Dryden
“I must have patience to endure the load.”
~ William Shakespeare