15 Patience Quotes

Here is the oldest and most common cliché in the book: "Patience my friend, is a virtue". No doubt about that. Even Warren Buffet realized it after selling the first shares he bought for a lower price and they rose to quite a hhigh price. See, how some famous people see patience and its importance in our lives. Here are some inspirational and motivational quotes about it...

All things come to him who waits - provided he knows what he is waiting for.
Woodrow T. Wilson


Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
John F. Kennedy


A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.
Ambrose Bierce


Patience makes lighter what sorrow may not heal.
Horace


Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.
Mac McCleary


Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
Laurence J. Peter


Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.
Lord Chesterfield


Abused patience turns to fury.
Thomas Fuller


How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?
Paul Sweeney


Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


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


He that can have patience can have what he will.
Benjamin Franklin


Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.
Baltasar Gracian


I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
Lao Tzu


Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.
Kin Hubbard