Philosophical Quotes & Thoughts

Inspirational Patience Quotes

1. "Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting." – Joyce Meyer
2. "The two most powerful warriors are patience and time." – Leo Tolstoy
3. "Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet." – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
4. "Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy." – Saadi
5. "The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it." – Arnold H. Glasow
6. "All great achievements require time." – Maya Angelou
7. "Patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting." – Unknown
8. "With love and patience, nothing is impossible." – Daisaku Ikeda
9. "Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty." – John Ruskin
10. "Patience is the companion of wisdom." – Saint Augustine

Life Lessons Patience Quotes

1. "To lose patience is to lose the battle." – Mahatma Gandhi
2. "He that can have patience can have what he will." – Benjamin Franklin
3. "Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
4. "Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish." – John Quincy Adams
5. "The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others." – Erik Erikson
6. "Patience is the best remedy for every trouble." – Plautus
7. "Patience is the road to wisdom." – Kao Kalia Yang
8. "Genius is eternal patience." – Michelangelo
9. "It is very strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting." – Elizabeth Taylor
10. "One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life." – Chinese Proverb

Motivational Patience Quotes

1. "Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown." – Soren Kierkegaard
2. "Everything comes if a man will only wait." – Benjamin Disraeli
3. "Have patience. Everything is difficult before it is easy." – Saadi
4. "Patience is a conquering virtue." – Geoffrey Chaucer
5. "Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there someday." – A.A. Milne
6. "With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown." – Chinese Proverb
7. "How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?" – William Shakespeare
8. "Wear patience like an amulet." – Unknown
9. "Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it." – Eknath Easwaran
10. "Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance." – Samuel Johnson

Patience in Personal Growth Quotes

1. "Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal." – Bryan Adams
2. "Patience attracts happiness; it brings near that which is far." – Swahili Proverb
3. "Patience is the key to paradise." – Turkish Proverb
4. "Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time." – Robert H. Schuller
5. "Two things define you: your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything." – George Bernard Shaw
6. "All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope." – Alexandre Dumas
7. "A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else." – George Savile
8. "Our patience will achieve more than our force." – Edmund Burke
9. "A moment of patience in a moment of anger prevents a thousand moments of regret." – Ali Ibn Abu Talib
10. "The secret to patience is doing something in the meantime." – Unknown

Patience in Relationships Quotes

1. "Have patience with all things, but first of all with yourself." – Saint Francis de Sales
2. "Love, patience, kindness, sincerity – these are the truly enduring qualities." – Unknown
3. "Patience is the mark of true love. If you truly love someone, you will be more patient with that person." – Thich Nhat Hanh
4. "Patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting." – Unknown
5. "Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious." – Phillips Brooks
6. "A strong relationship requires choosing to love each other even in those moments when you struggle to like each other." – Unknown
7. "Be patient. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is 'timing.' It waits for the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way." – Fulton J. Sheen
8. "You can't rush something you want to last forever." – Unknown
9. "True love is not only about patience but it is also about doing the right thing and being present truly." – Unknown
10. "Patience gives us wisdom." – Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Patience in Success Quotes

1. "Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do." – Pele
2. "The secret of patience is to do something else in the meanwhile." – Unknown
3. "Do not seek to have everything immediately, but be patient to be worthy of what you desire." – Unknown
4. "Good things come to those who wait but better things come to those who work for it." – Unknown
5. "Success requires both urgency and patience. Be urgent about making the effort and patient about seeing the results." – Ralph Marston
6. "Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success." – Napoleon Hill
7. "All things are difficult before they are easy." – Thomas Fuller
8. "Delay is a tool of success." – Unknown
9. "Do not expect the future to be an exact copy of the past. Be open to amazement by the strategic break and the occasional appreciative surprise." – Enea Bianchi
10. "The patient one will grow strong." – Japanese Proverb

Philosophical Patience Quotes

1. "Patience is the art of hoping." – Luc de Clapiers
2. "One minute of patience, ten years of peace." – Greek Proverb
3. "You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience." – Stanislaus I
4. "Wise to resolve, and patient to perform." – Homer
5. "Patience is the ornament of a soldier, and religion is his armour." – James Burgh
6. "Patience is the key to every door." – Unknown
7. "Leniency is better than hatred." – Solomon Ibn Gabirol
8. "Patience is the light that illuminates the path of life." – Lailah Gifty Akita
9. "Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child—our own two eyes. All is a miracle." – Thich Nhat Hanh
10. "Patience is the acceptance of the process." – Gerald G. Jampolsky

Patience for Personal Peace Quotes

1. "Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength." – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
2. "Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow just as well." – Mark Twain
3. "Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing." – Benjamin Franklin
4. "Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind." – David G. Allen
5. "One moment of patience can prevent a disaster; one moment of impatience can ruin a life." – Unknown
6. "Time always exposes what you truly mean." – Unknown
7. "The real act of discovery consists not in finding new lands, but in seeing with new eyes." – Marcel Proust
8. "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
9. "Be patient with what you want." – Unknown
10. "There is no error greater than hatred. Nothing mightier than patience. It is because of forgiveness that the universe is held together." – Swami Vivekananda

Spiritual Patience Quotes

1. "And we urge you, brothers and sisters, to be patient with everyone." – 1 Thessalonians 5:14
2. "But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing." – James 1:4
3. "The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one's defects, and the bearing of burdens. When one must put up with a little defect in each other's conduct, they should be careful where they cast blame." – Saint Vincent de Paul
4. "Trust the process. Your time is coming. Just do the work and the results will handle themselves." – Tony Gaskins
5. "Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and He will establish your plans." – Proverbs 16:3
6. "Patience and diligence, like faith, remove mountains." – William Penn
7. "The fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness." – Galatians 5:22
8. "Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for the Lord!" – Psalm 31:24
9. "It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer." – Albert Einstein
10. "In the chaos of life, cultivate patience with everything unresolved in your heart." – Unknown