Patience Quotes on Life, Love and Success

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One thing many of us could practice more is having more patience.

In a world where everyone tends to opt for quick-fix solutions, not many possess the virtue of being patient.

In today’s times, many people seem to lack the necessary willpower to wait just a bit longer for something more worthy.

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According to a study published in the journal Emotion, more patient individuals report higher life satisfaction, fewer negative emotions, and better mental and physical health.

The study found that patience is a key factor in overall well-being.

Instead, when they want it, they want it now; without any kind of delay.

Granted, we all find ourselves in situations where we simply can’t afford to wait.

After all, we are always reminded that time is money.

But whether it’s in a relationship, at work, towards a stranger you meet during your day, or in life as a whole, being more patient and understanding of others can help you stay positive, even in a negative world.

And remember, “good things come to those who wait.”

In that respect, here are some powerful patience quotes to help bring a lot more peace in your life and to inspire you to be patient in your journey to greatness.

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Inspirational patience quotes on life, love and success

A survey by the American Psychological Association found that 37% of adults in the United States reported feeling stressed due to a lack of patience.

This suggests that impatience is a common source of stress for many people.

1. “Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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2. “Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.” – Joyce Meyer

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3. “Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.” – Saadi

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4. “Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.” – William Penn

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5. “Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.” – Samuel Johnson

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

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7. “He that can have patience can have what he will.” ― Benjamin Franklin

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8. “Patience is a conquering virtue.” ― Geoffrey Chaucer

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9. “The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.” ― Leo Tolstoy

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10. “Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.” ― A.A. Milne

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Inspirational quotes about patience and understanding

A study by the University of California, Berkeley found that individuals who practice patience are more likely to be happy and experience greater well-being in their lives.

The study suggests that patience is a key ingredient in a fulfilling life.

11. “Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.” – Phillips Brooks

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12. “The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.” – Solomon Ibn Gabirol

13. “When it comes to increasing motivation and self-control, you have to remain patient and allow your mind to adapt to the new changes.” – Jill Hesson

14. “Struggles often serve to release the wisdom, patience, and strength we all possess but too seldom demonstrate.” – Jim Stovall

15. “One minute of patience, ten years of peace.” ~ Greek proverb

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16. “Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.” ― Molière

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17. “Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” – Harriet Tubman

18. “Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.” ~ John Quincy Adams

19. “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

20. “I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.” ― Margaret Thatcher

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Inspirational patience quotes about love and relationships

21. “With love and patience, nothing is impossible.” ~ Daisaku Ikeda

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22. “Patience is not sitting and waiting, it is foreseeing. It is looking at the thorn and seeing the rose, looking at the night and seeing the day. Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full.”― Rumi

23. “If you have patience, then you’ll also have love. Patience leads to love.” – Mata Amritanandamayi

24. “For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice – no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.” – John Burroughs

25. “If we could look into each other’s hearts and understand the unique challenges each of us faces, I think we would treat each other much more gently, with more love, patience, tolerance, and care.” – Marvin J. Ashton

26. “No one has patience for love except their own.” – Marjorie Celona

27. “Love, patience, and meekness can be just as contagious as rudeness and crudeness.” – Neal A. Maxwell

28. “An alternative to love is not hate but patience.” – Santosh Kalwar

Inspirational patience quotes about learning and growth

29. “Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.” – Billy Graham

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

31. “Patience is the companion of wisdom.” – Saint Augustine

32. “Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.” ~ George-Louis de Buffon

33. “Patience can’t be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.” ~ Eknath Easwaran

34. “Learning patience can be a difficult experience, but once conquered you will find life is easier.” Catherine Pulsifer

35. “When you encounter various trials, big or small, be full of joy. They’re opportunities to learn patience.” – Scott Curran

36. “Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.” – Stephen Covey

37. “Patience teaches us to turn provocations into invocations, to transform frustrations into celebrations.”– William Arthur Ward

38. “If you take it step by step, you shall least miss a step!”― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

39. “A wise man does not try to hurry history. Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.” – Adlai Stevenson

40. “Patience is the virtue of an ass that trots beneath his burden, and is quiet.” – George Granville

Insightful patience quotes

41. “It takes patience to listen. It takes skill to pretend you’re listening.”― Harmon Okinyo

42. “Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow – that is patience.” – Leo Tolstoy

43. “Our patience will achieve more than our force.” – Edmund Burke

44. “Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.” – Charles Caleb Colton

45. “All human wisdom is summed up in two words – wait and hope” – Alexandre Dumas Père
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46. “It is better to have a hen tomorrow than an egg today.”- Thomas Fuller

47. “Quite honestly, most people are quick to “write someone off.” But our God is a God of the second chance. Learn from One who is patient with you, and you’ll learn to be patient with others.” – Woodrow Kroll

48. “Great things are not accomplished by idle dreams, but by years of patient study.” – James H. Aughey

49. “At the bottom of patience one finds heaven.” – Kanuri

50. “By diligence and patience, the mouse bit in two the cable.” – Ben Franklin

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51. “He who has infinite patience and infinite energy at his back will alone succeed.” – Swami Vivekanand

52. “It is very strange that the years teach us patience – that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.” – Elizabeth Taylor

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

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

55. “Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement.” – Vera Nazarian

56. “Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.” – Victor Hugo

57. “The more patient we are, the more understanding we become.” – William Arthur Ward

58. “To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success.” – Joseph de Maistre

59. “Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.” – Rainer Maria Rilke

60. “I learn it every day of my life, learn it with pain I am grateful for: patience is everything!” – Rainer Maria Rilke

Patience quotes to help you find more of it

61. “Beware the fury of a patient man.” — John Dryden

62. “A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.” — Lana Turner

63. “Be patient. Patience is the mother of all virtues.” — Hrithik Roshan

64. “I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.” — Edith Sitwell

65. “The beauty of mathematics only shows itself to more patient followers.” — Maryam Mirzakhani

66. “Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don’t rush. Be quick, but don’t hurry.” — Earl Monroe

67. “There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.” — Swami Sivananda

68. “Sometimes things aren’t clear right away. That’s where you need to be patient and persevere and see where things lead.” — Mary Pierce

69. “Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.” — Heraclitus

70. “A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.” — Liberty Hyde Bailey

More Patience Quotes and Sayings

71. “Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.” – Aristotle

72. “Two things define you: your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.” – George Bernard Shaw

73. “My dad said to me – Work hard and be patient. It was the best advice he ever gave me. You have to put the hours in.” – Simon Cowell

74. “Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.” – Plautus

75. “Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.” – George Louis de Buffon

76. “Patience is the best medicine” – John Florio

77. “Patience and wisdom walk hand in hand, like two one-armed lovers.” – Jarod Kintz

78. “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

79. “Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.” – Criss Jami

80. “All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.” – Thomas a Kempis

Importance Of Patience Quotes To Achieve Greatness

81. “The tower of success stands on the pillars of vision, action, patience and the character to withstand criticisms.” ― Amit Ray

82. “But there are times when patience proves at fault.” ― Robert Browning

83. “Having patience always gives you what you deserve.” ― Fatma Alfalasi

84. “Great patience is called for on the hard path that I have entered on.” ― Edgar Degas

85. “One who is patient glows with an inner radiance.” ― Allan Lokos

86. “I worked with patience which means almost power.” ― Elizabeth Barrett Browning

87. “We need patient people who are able to endure the toughest disciplines.” ― Samael Aun Weor

88. “Why is patience so important?” “Because it makes us pay attention.” ― Paulo Coelho

89. “Nothing else is necessary but these – love, sincerity, and patience.” ― Swami Vivekananda

90. “Patience and persistence are the keys… The keys to unlock doors of success… With these two virtues, you grow in reasoning and experience.” ― Ogwo David Emenike

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91. “Always show patience, don’t turn away. It will make life worthwhile tomorrow and today.” — Catherine Pulsifer

92. “Patience listens with actual interest. The long suffering creates steadfastness in the midst of patience.” — Dr. Becky Slabaugh

93. “Patience is the ornament of the brave. Patience is the real badge of courage; it is equally the mark of love.” — Eknath Easwaran

94. “In a good relationship, it is a must to forgive, have patience, and expect the best from our partner.” — Rudi Zimmerer

95. “Persist in patience – it may not happen overnight, but make good patience a habit that you practice.” — Danielle Tinning

96. “Establishing a good morning routine will give you the energy, patience and focus that you need to cope with the major changes going on in your life.” — Samantha Westwood

97. “Patience is the productivity factor which keeps you persistent in working on your task.” — Abder-Rahman Ali

98. “It can take as long as three years to completely adjust to your retirement. Be patient and know that a new life is awakening within you.” — Robert Delamontagne

99. “Spiritual growth is not like fast food. It takes time for its roots to grow, and that requires us to be receptive and patient.” — Rabbi Zalman

100. “Once you decide you’re ready to change, you’ll need to be patient with yourself especially if setting goals on a regular basis isn’t something you normally do.” — P. Seymour

Which patience quotes were your favorite?

There are certain things in life that take more time than others.

Sometimes we need to allow life to follow its natural course.

Otherwise, if we don’t learn to be patient, we might end up inflicting unnecessary pain on ourselves and on those around us.

In a world that strives for instant gratification, being more patient can help you stay positive and happy.

Hopefully, these patience quotes have inspired you to develop the inner calmness to wait.

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