Quotes about Patience
Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
- Barbara Johnson
Let nothing disturb thee, let nothing affright thee. All things are passing. Patience obtains all things. He who has God has everything - God alone suffices.
- Teresa of Avila
That is why faith, wherever it develops into hope, causes not rest but unrest, not patience but impatience.... Those who hope in Christ can no longer put up with reality as it is.
- Jurgen Moltmann
The opposite of patience is not impatience, but unbelief.
- Jackie Pullinger
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
I'll tell you what leadership is. It's persuasion and conciliation, and education, and patience.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Advent is patience it's how God has made us a people of promise, in a world of impatience.
- Stanley Hauerwas
Have patience to walk with short steps until you have wings to fly.
- Francis de Sales
Patience is not just about waiting for something... it's about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.
- Joyce Meyer
God's patience is infinite. Men, like small kettles, boil quickly with wrath at the least wrong. Not so God. If God were as wrathful, the world would have been a heap of ruins long ago.
- Sadhu Sundar Singh
Most men are notable for one conspicuous virtue or grace - Moses for meekness, Job for patience, John for love. But, in Jesus you find everything.
- J. Oswald Sanders
Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
- Benjamin Disraeli