Quotes about Patience
Instead of our petulant, fretful, irritable human hastiness we should cultivate in our souls the patience which has learned to wait on God.
- William Barclay
If God were not to test us, there would be no patience.
- John Calvin
Let things alone; let them weigh what they will; let them soar or fall.
- Henry David Thoreau
Dispose thyself to patience rather than to comfort, and to the bearing of the cross rather than to gladness.
- Thomas a Kempis
The Army, as usual, are without pay; and a great part of the soldiery without shirts; and though the patience of them is equally threadbare, the States seem perfectly indifferent to their cries.
- George Washington
Patience obtains everything.
- Teresa of Avila
I admire and respect the tenacity, courage, and patience of the unenlightened in the face of so much overwhelming evidence
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Have you seen a room from which faith has gone? Like a marriage from which love has gone. And patience, patience everywhere like a fog.
- Graham Greene
Patience is a fruit of the spirit that grows only under trial. It is useless to pray for patience. Well, actually I encourage you to pray for patience, but I'll tell you what you'll get TRIALS!
- Joyce Meyer
Waiting is an expectant patience. It's a patience that says, "I don't know what God is going to do, but I know God is going to do something."
- Max Lucado
It's all about patience and persistence - you often have to expose a child to a new food numerous times before he or she will begin to like it. So keep trying!
- Michelle Obama
The best fire doesna flare up the soonest.
- George Eliot