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

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

When I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of stress and anxiety; if I sit in my own place of patience, what I need flows to me, and without pain. From this I understand that what I want also wants me, is looking for me and attracting me. There is a great secret here for anyone who can grasp it.

Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

Everything comes if a man will only wait.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.

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

Good things come to those who hustle.

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

Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience.

I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint.

Listen. Pay attention. Treasure every moment.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.

Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.

Sometimes they are a matter of luck; the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that he has seen and lost or for one that he anticipates.

Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it’s not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. it’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.

Any methodology for developing patience requires a multi-tiered approach.

We must accept the reality that the causes of impatience travel a two-way street.

Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry.

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Don’t halloo until you’re out of the wood.

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.

Patience is also a form of action.

The faster you go, the shorter you are.

He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.

The bigger the dam of patience, the worse the flood when the dam breaks.

Don’t try to rush things: for the cup to run over, it must first be filled.

Patience wins the race.

All things come to him who waits – even justice.

deferring gratification is a good definition of being civilized.

So it’s been a slow process and it’s taken some patience. That’s why patients are called patients I think – patience is required.