# Quotes about patience - Quotes: 104 - Authors: 77 - Topic page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience - JSON version (same data): https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.json ## Quotes > An oak is not felled by a single blow of the axe. [Giovanni Boccaccio](https://www.leafyquotes.com/giovanni-boccaccio.md) · [The Decameron](https://www.leafyquotes.com/giovanni-boccaccio/the-decameron.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/giovanni-boccaccio/the-decameron/an-oak-is-not.md) Topics: [perseverance](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/perseverance.md), [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > Patience and time do more than strength or passion. [Jean de La Fontaine](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-de-la-fontaine.md) · [Fables](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-de-la-fontaine/fables.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-de-la-fontaine/fables/patience-and-time.md) Topics: [time](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time.md), [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer. [Rainer Maria Rilke](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rainer-maria-rilke.md) · [Letters to a Young Poet](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rainer-maria-rilke/letters-to-a-young-poet.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rainer-maria-rilke/letters-to-a-young-poet/be-patient-toward.md) Topics: [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md), [asking questions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/asking-questions.md) > A fire would cause a dawn, undoubtedly, but why not wait for the break of day? [Victor Hugo](https://www.leafyquotes.com/victor-hugo.md) · [Les Miserables](https://www.leafyquotes.com/victor-hugo/les-miserables.md) · p. 549 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/victor-hugo/les-miserables/a-fire-would.md) Topics: [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience. [Albert Camus](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus.md) · [A Happy Death](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/a-happy-death.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/a-happy-death/only-it-takes.md) Topics: [happiness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/happiness.md), [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > We will first speak how the natural inclination and habit to be angry, may be attempted and calmed. Secondly, how the particular motions of anger may be repressed, or at least refrained from doing mischief. Thirdly, how to raise anger, or appease anger in another. For the first; there is no other way but to meditate, and ruminate well upon the effects of anger, how it troubles man's life. And the best time to do this, is to look back upon anger, when the fit is thoroughly over. Seneca saith well, That anger is like ruin, which breaks itself upon that it falls. The Scripture exhorteth us to possess our souls in patience. Whosoever is out of patience, is out of possession of his soul. [Francis Bacon](https://www.leafyquotes.com/francis-bacon.md) · [The Essays](https://www.leafyquotes.com/francis-bacon/the-essays.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/francis-bacon/the-essays/we-will-first.md) Topics: [anger](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/anger.md), [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees. [Francis Bacon](https://www.leafyquotes.com/francis-bacon.md) · [The Essays](https://www.leafyquotes.com/francis-bacon/the-essays.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/francis-bacon/the-essays/in-all-negotiations.md) Topics: [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > Fortune is like the market, where many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall. [Francis Bacon](https://www.leafyquotes.com/francis-bacon.md) · [The Essays](https://www.leafyquotes.com/francis-bacon/the-essays.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/francis-bacon/the-essays/fortune-is-like.md) Topics: [fate](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fate.md), [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > I can wait: waiting and patience mean nothing to the eternal. I gave the woman the greatest of gifts: curiosity. By that her seed has been saved from my wrath; for I also am curious; and I have waited always to see what they will do tomorrow. [George Bernard Shaw](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-bernard-shaw.md) · [Back to Methuselah](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-bernard-shaw/back-to-methuselah.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-bernard-shaw/back-to-methuselah/i-can-wait.md) Topics: [curiosity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/curiosity.md), [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > "I promised him I would bear it," she [Sara Crewe] said. "And I will. You have to bear things. Think what soldiers bear! Papa is a soldier. If there was a war he would have to bear marching and thirstiness and, perhaps, deep wounds. And he would never say a word—not one word." [Frances Hodgson Burnett](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frances-hodgson-burnett.md) · [A Little Princess](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frances-hodgson-burnett/a-little-princess.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frances-hodgson-burnett/a-little-princess/i-promised-him.md) Topics: [courage](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/courage.md), [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > She warned me that raising children would require patience. It’s why I never had any of my own. [James S. A. Corey](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey.md) · [The Mercy of Gods](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/the-mercy-of-gods.md) · p. 12 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/the-mercy-of-gods/she-warned-me-that.md) Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md), [children](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/children.md), [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > Healing is a journey and it takes its own sweet time. What a gift it is to get a second chance at life when the worst is past. (Author's Note) [Ruth Behar](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ruth-behar.md) · [Lucky Broken Girl](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ruth-behar/lucky-broken-girl.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ruth-behar/lucky-broken-girl/healing-is-a-journey.md) Topics: [life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life.md), [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > As if reading his mind, Jamal-al-Din said, 'To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate." (p61) [Leila Aboulela](https://www.leafyquotes.com/leila-aboulela.md) · [The Kindness of Enemies](https://www.leafyquotes.com/leila-aboulela/the-kindness-of-enemies.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/leila-aboulela/the-kindness-of-enemies/as-if-reading.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > Patience is a narcotic for the weak. [Edgar Pangborn](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edgar-pangborn.md) · [A Mirror for Observers](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edgar-pangborn/a-mirror-for-observers.md) · p. 14 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edgar-pangborn/a-mirror-for-observers/patience-is-a-narcotic.md) Topics: [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > Stories, like food, lose their flavor if cooked in a hurry. [Ngugi wa Thiong'o](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ngugi-wa-thiongo.md) · [Wizard of the Crow](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ngugi-wa-thiongo/wizard-of-the-crow.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ngugi-wa-thiongo/wizard-of-the-crow/stories-like-food.md) Topics: [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md), [stories](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/stories.md) > Education means cultivating patience, tolerance, a sweet disposition, harmony, abnegation, and temperateness. Anyone who cultivates these virtues is truly educated. [Luisa Capetillo](https://www.leafyquotes.com/luisa-capetillo.md) · [A Nation of Women](https://www.leafyquotes.com/luisa-capetillo/a-nation-of-women.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/luisa-capetillo/a-nation-of-women/education-means-cultivating.md) Topics: [education](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/education.md), [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md), [tolerance](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/tolerance.md) > “Any idiot,” he said calmly but with immense conviction, “can learn anything in mathematics. It requires only patience.” [David Berlinski](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-berlinski.md) · [A Tour of the Calculus](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-berlinski/a-tour-of-the-calculus.md) · p. 281 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-berlinski/a-tour-of-the-calculus/any-idiot-he-said.md) Topics: [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md), [mathematics](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/mathematics.md) > What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did. [Nina Simone](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nina-simone.md) · [I Put A Spell On You](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nina-simone/i-put-a-spell-on-you.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nina-simone/i-put-a-spell-on-you/what-kept-me-sane.md) Topics: [change](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/change.md), [hope](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hope.md), [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > Alone; it was the one active passion I had left now, the only real obsession. I had acquired, I hoped, with the passage of the years, the bad years, a measure of patience, and I thought of myself as being somewhat tight-mouthed, and even persevering, virtues I had always so conspicuously lacked, and I thought the time was at last gone when I had exhausted myself with futile rebellions. The rebellions seemed now, from this cool distance, this slight eminence I had achieved, silly and wasteful, and it was cunning that now struck me as the valuable quality to have, the distinctive characteristic. There had been so much blind impetuosity in the past; there had been so many indiscriminate wounds inflicted; I had lacerated myself as well as others so unhappily so many times. Now I fought, or it seemed to me I was fighting, a much sounder although a much more limited and more circumspect war: it consisted mostly of careful withdrawals, of very conscious retreats. [Alfred Hayes](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alfred-hayes.md) · [My Face for the World to See](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alfred-hayes/my-face-for-the-world-to-see.md) · p. 12 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alfred-hayes/my-face-for-the-world-to-see/alone-it-was.md) Topics: [loneliness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/loneliness.md), [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md), [rebellion](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/rebellion.md) > “Patience, my friend.” > > “I’m not your friend. And I’m not patient.” [Django Wexler](https://www.leafyquotes.com/django-wexler.md) · [The Forbidden Library](https://www.leafyquotes.com/django-wexler/the-forbidden-library.md) · p. 66 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/django-wexler/the-forbidden-library/patience-my-friend.md) Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md), [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > The skill I was learning was a crucial one, the patience to read things I could not yet understand. [Tara Westover](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tara-westover.md) · [Educated](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tara-westover/educated.md) · p. 62 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tara-westover/educated/the-skill-i-was.md) Topics: [reading](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/reading.md), [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > “We’re just too nosy, Commander,” he went on. “Most humans have their patience level set a little too low, and their curiosity a bit too high.” [Charles Sheffield](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-sheffield.md) · [Summertide](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-sheffield/summertide.md) · p. 153 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-sheffield/summertide/were-just-too.md) Topics: [curiosity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/curiosity.md), [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > Wait until you are hungry to say something, until there is an aching in you to speak. Then come back. > > Don't worry. You won't have lost time. Your energy will be more direct and less wasted. [Natalie Goldberg](https://www.leafyquotes.com/natalie-goldberg.md) · [Writing Down the Bones](https://www.leafyquotes.com/natalie-goldberg/writing-down-the-bones.md) · p. 140 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/natalie-goldberg/writing-down-the-bones/wait-until-you.md) Topics: [writing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/writing.md), [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > Life had taught her to be brave, to be patient, to love, to forgive. [Lucy Maud Montgomery](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lucy-maud-montgomery.md) · [Rainbow Valley](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lucy-maud-montgomery/rainbow-valley.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lucy-maud-montgomery/rainbow-valley/life-had-taught.md) Topics: [courage](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/courage.md), [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md), [forgiveness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness.md) > Again, be patient. And have courage. Remember, everything passes, even the most unspeakable horrors. [Susan Howatch](https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-howatch.md) · [The Wheel Of Fortune](https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-howatch/the-wheel-of-fortune.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-howatch/the-wheel-of-fortune/again-be-patient.md) Topics: [courage](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/courage.md), [transience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/transience.md), [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > Nothing can be learned without some measure of risk, and, more vital still, of patience. [Tanith Lee](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee.md) · [Electric Forest](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/electric-forest.md) · p. 7 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/electric-forest/nothing-can-be-learned.md) Topics: [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md), [risk](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/risk.md) > Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything. [B.K.S. Iyengar](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bks-iyengar.md) · [Light on Life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bks-iyengar/light-on-life.md) · p. 12 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bks-iyengar/light-on-life/nothing-can-be-forced.md) Topics: [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > Sometimes we have to “live the question,” not push for the answer. [Abraham Verghese](https://www.leafyquotes.com/abraham-verghese.md) · [The Covenant of Water](https://www.leafyquotes.com/abraham-verghese/the-covenant-of-water.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/abraham-verghese/the-covenant-of-water/sometimes-we-have.md) Topics: [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > Binabik had taught him to do only what he could at any given time. “You cannot catch three fish with two hands,” the little man often said. [Tad Williams](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tad-williams.md) · [To Green Angel Tower](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tad-williams/to-green-angel-tower.md) · p. 540 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tad-williams/to-green-angel-tower/binabik-had-taught.md) Topics: [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > "I tell Ryan that God gave him a brother like Miles so that Ryan could learn that anything is possible and that he can be good at anything. And I tell Miles that God gave him Ryan so that Miles could learn patience and persistence and how to overcome challeges." [Nicholas Sparks](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks.md) · [Three Weeks With My Brother](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks/three-weeks-with-my-brother.md) · p. 333 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks/three-weeks-with-my-brother/i-tell-ryan.md) Topics: [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > My lord, our immortal philosopher Kagemni, vizier to King Huni, says that patience is man's refuge in times of despair, and his armor against misfortunes. [Naguib Mahfouz](https://www.leafyquotes.com/naguib-mahfouz.md) · [Khufu's Wisdom](https://www.leafyquotes.com/naguib-mahfouz/khufus-wisdom.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/naguib-mahfouz/khufus-wisdom/my-lord-our.md) Topics: [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md), [despair](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/despair.md) > That was the responsibility that went with being human, old Ku’oosh said, the story behind each word must be told so there could be no mistake in the meaning of what had been said; and this demanded great patience and love. (p33) [Leslie Marmon Silko](https://www.leafyquotes.com/leslie-marmon-silko.md) · [Ceremony](https://www.leafyquotes.com/leslie-marmon-silko/ceremony.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/leslie-marmon-silko/ceremony/that-was-the.md) Topics: [words](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/words.md), [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > It is in the animal part of your nature to be most impressed by what you can see and hear in the present—the latest news reports and trends, the opinions and actions of the people around you, whatever seems the most dramatic. This is what makes you fall for alluring schemes that promise quick results and easy money. This is also what makes you overreact to present circumstances—becoming overly exhilarated or panicky as events turn one direction or the other. Learn to measure people by the narrowness or breadth of their vision; avoid entangling yourself with those who cannot see the consequences of their actions, who are in a continual reactive mode. They will infect you with this energy. Your eyes must be on the larger trends that govern events, on that which is not immediately visible. Never lose sight of your long-term goals. With an elevated perspective, you will have the patience and clarity to reach almost any objective. [Robert Greene](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-greene.md) · [The Laws of Human Nature](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-greene/the-laws-of-human-nature.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-greene/the-laws-of-human-nature/it-is-in-the.md) Topics: [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > If you would savor the sweet taste of the fruit, you must water the tree, [George RR Martin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin.md) · [A Dance with Dragons](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-dance-with-dragons.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-dance-with-dragons/if-you-would.md) Topics: [work](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/work.md), [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > The symbol for the Environment Ministry is the eye of a tortoise, for the long view—the understanding that nothing comes cheap or quickly without a hidden cost. [Paolo Bacigalupi](https://www.leafyquotes.com/paolo-bacigalupi.md) · [The Windup Girl](https://www.leafyquotes.com/paolo-bacigalupi/the-windup-girl.md) · p. 121 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/paolo-bacigalupi/the-windup-girl/the-symbol-for.md) Topics: [ecology](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/ecology.md), [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > It was just as Mandrag said: Nine tenths of alchemy was chemistry. And nine tenths of chemistry was waiting. [Patrick Rothfuss](https://www.leafyquotes.com/patrick-rothfuss.md) · [The Slow Regard of Silent Things](https://www.leafyquotes.com/patrick-rothfuss/the-slow-regard-of-silent-things.md) · p. 143 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/patrick-rothfuss/the-slow-regard-of-silent-things/it-was-just-as.md) Topics: [science](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/science.md), [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > Instant gratification is not as good as that gratification which comes dripping slow, over the sere seasons. [Donald Barthelme](https://www.leafyquotes.com/donald-barthelme.md) · [Flying to America](https://www.leafyquotes.com/donald-barthelme/flying-to-america.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/donald-barthelme/flying-to-america/instant-gratification-is-not.md) Topics: [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > The only thing of weight that can be said against modern Honour is, that it is directly opposite to Religion. The one bids you bear Injuries with Patience, the other tells you if you don't resent them, you are not fit to live. [Bernard Mandeville](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bernard-mandeville.md) · [The Fable of the Bees](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bernard-mandeville/the-fable-of-the-bees.md) · p. 245 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bernard-mandeville/the-fable-of-the-bees/the-only-thing.md) Topics: [religion](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/religion.md), [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md), [honour](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/honour.md) > Pacyens is more worthy than myraclys werkyng. [Margery Kempe](https://www.leafyquotes.com/margery-kempe.md) · [The Book of Margery Kempe](https://www.leafyquotes.com/margery-kempe/the-book-of-margery-kempe.md) · p. 108 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/margery-kempe/the-book-of-margery-kempe/pacyens-is-more.md) Topics: [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > Find the best in everybody. … you might have to wait a long time, sometimes years, but people will show you their good side. Just keep waiting no matter how long it takes. No one is all evil. Everybody has a good side, just keep waiting, it will come out. [Randy Pausch](https://www.leafyquotes.com/randy-pausch.md) · [The Last Lecture](https://www.leafyquotes.com/randy-pausch/the-last-lecture.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/randy-pausch/the-last-lecture/find-the-best.md) Topics: [kindness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/kindness.md), [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > Wait long enough and people will surprise and impress you. He said, when you are pissed off at somebody, and you're angry at them, you just haven't given them enough time. Just give them a little more time — and they'll almost always impress you. And that really stuck with me. I think he's absolutely right on that one. [Randy Pausch](https://www.leafyquotes.com/randy-pausch.md) · [The Last Lecture](https://www.leafyquotes.com/randy-pausch/the-last-lecture.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/randy-pausch/the-last-lecture/wait-long-enough.md) Topics: [anger](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/anger.md), [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > I had eventually come to understand that friendship was a delicate, gradual process that mustn't be rushed or seized upon but allowed and encouraged to take its course over time. I pictured it as a butterfly, simultaneously beautiful and fragile, that once afloat belonged to the air and any attempt to grab at it would only destroy it. [Daniel Tammet](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-tammet.md) · [Born On a Blue Day](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-tammet/born-on-a-blue-day.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-tammet/born-on-a-blue-day/i-had-eventually.md) Topics: [friendship](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship.md), [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > In the end one needs forbearance to get by in this world. [Stefan Zweig](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stefan-zweig.md) · [The Post-Office Girl](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stefan-zweig/the-post-office-girl.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stefan-zweig/the-post-office-girl/in-the-end.md) Topics: [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > You got to learn to wait people out. Hear what they got to say. Not enough to have a majority rule, y’know. Otherwise, the minority won’t be convinced and they won’t support the plan. No point havin’ people at your elbow who’re against what you’re doin’. So we just got to talk it out Quaker-style till ever’body agrees. More efficient in the long run. [Gregory Benford](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford.md) · [Against Infinity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/against-infinity.md) · p. 179 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/against-infinity/you-got-to-learn.md) Topics: [democracy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/democracy.md), [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md), [compromise](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/compromise.md) > But the answers come when they will, one piece at a time. [Gregory Benford](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford.md) · [In Alien Flesh](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/in-alien-flesh.md) · p. 232 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/in-alien-flesh/but-the-answers.md) Topics: [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > What can't be cured must be endured. [Anne Brontë](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anne-bronte.md) · [The Tenant of Wildfell Hall](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anne-bronte/the-tenant-of-wildfell-hall.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anne-bronte/the-tenant-of-wildfell-hall/what-cant-be-cured.md) Topics: [suffering](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/suffering.md), [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > "The sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and hope." [Alexandre Dumas](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alexandre-dumas.md) · [The Count of Monte Cristo](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alexandre-dumas/the-count-of-monte-cristo.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alexandre-dumas/the-count-of-monte-cristo/the-sum-of-all.md) Topics: [hope](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hope.md), [wisdom](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/wisdom.md), [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > Don't you understand even seedtime and reaping? How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown? [Mary Renault](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-renault.md) · [The King Must Die](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-renault/the-king-must-die.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-renault/the-king-must-die/dont-you-understand.md) Topics: [trust](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/trust.md), [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > The hardest lesson for humans to learn: that organic complexity will entail organic time. [Kevin Kelly](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kevin-kelly.md) · [Out Of Control](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kevin-kelly/out-of-control.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kevin-kelly/out-of-control/the-hardest-lesson.md) Topics: [time](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time.md), [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > Authoritarian, paralyzing, circular, occasionally elliptical, stock phrases, also jocularly referred to as nuggets of wisdom, are malignant plague, one of the very worst ever to ravage the earth. We say to the confused, Know thyself, as if knowing yourself was not the fifth and most difficult of human arithmetical operations, we say to the apathetic, Where there’s a will, there’s a way, as if the brute realities of the world did not amuse themselves each day by turning that phrase on its head, we say to the indecisive, Begin at the beginning, as if that beginning were the clearly visible point of a loosely wound thread and that all we had to do was to keep pulling until we reached the other end, and as if, between the former and the latter, we had held in our hands a smooth, continuous thread with no knots to untie, no snarled to untangle, a complete impossibility in the life of a skien, or indeed, if we may be permitted on more stock phrase, in the skien of life. … These are the delusions of the pure and unprepared, the beginning is never the clear, precise end of a thread, the beginning is a long, painfully slow process that requires time and patience in order to find out in which direction it is heading, a process that feels its way along the path ahead like a blind man, the beginning is just the beginning, what came before is nigh on worthless. [José Saramago](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jose-saramago.md) · [The Cave](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jose-saramago/the-cave.md) · p. 54 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jose-saramago/the-cave/authoritarian-paralyzing-circular.md) Topics: [wisdom](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/wisdom.md), [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > The best way to killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud. [José Saramago](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jose-saramago.md) · [The Cave](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jose-saramago/the-cave.md) · p. 89 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jose-saramago/the-cave/the-best-way.md) Topics: [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > After you have practiced for a while, you will realize that it is not possible to make rapid, extraordinary progress. Even though you try very hard, the progress you make is always little by little. It is not like going out in a shower in which you know when you get wet. In a fog, you do not know you are getting wet, but as you keep walking you get wet little by little. If your mind has ideas of progress, you may say, "Oh, this pace is terrible!" But actually it is not. When you get wet in a fog it is very difficult to dry yourself. So there is no need to worry about progress. [Shunryu Suzuki](https://www.leafyquotes.com/shunryu-suzuki.md) · [Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind](https://www.leafyquotes.com/shunryu-suzuki/zen-mind-beginners-mind.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/shunryu-suzuki/zen-mind-beginners-mind/after-you-have.md) Topics: [perseverance](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/perseverance.md), [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > Something in their history has moved them to patience. Wise leaders do not go to war with enemies, not even evil enemies, unless they have thought it through to the end. [Sheri S. Tepper](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper.md) · [The Margarets](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/the-margarets.md) · p. 504 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/the-margarets/something-in-their.md) Topics: [war](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/war.md), [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md), [leadership](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/leadership.md) > Be not impatient in delays, > > But wait, as one who understands. > > When spirit rises and commands, > > The gods are ready to obey. [James Allen](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-allen.md) · [As a Man Thinketh](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-allen/as-a-man-thinketh.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-allen/as-a-man-thinketh/be-not-impatient.md) Topics: [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > When issues of events like these my father is waiting for, are hanging in the scales of fate, the mind has the advantage of changing the principle of expectation three times, without which it would not have power to see it out.Curiosity governs the first moment; and the second moment is all economy to justify the expense of the first — and for the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth moments, and so on to the day of judgment — 'tis a point of HONOUR.I need not be told, that the ethic writers have assigned this all to Patience; but that VIRTUE, methinks, has extent of domination sufficient of her own, and enough to do in it, without invading the few dismantled castles which HONOUR has left him upon the earth. [Laurence Sterne](https://www.leafyquotes.com/laurence-sterne.md) · [The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/laurence-sterne/the-life-and-opinions-of-tristram-shandy-gentleman.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/laurence-sterne/the-life-and-opinions-of-tristram-shandy-gentleman/when-issues-of-events.md) Topics: [curiosity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/curiosity.md), [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md), [honour](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/honour.md) > My Son, patience and humility in adversities are more pleasing to Me than much comfort and devotion in prosperity. [Thomas Kempis](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-kempis.md) · [The Imitation of Christ](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-kempis/the-imitation-of-christ.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-kempis/the-imitation-of-christ/my-son-patience.md) Topics: [humility](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humility.md), [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > Dispose thyself to patience rather than to comfort, and to the bearing of the cross rather than to gladness. [Thomas Kempis](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-kempis.md) · [The Imitation of Christ](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-kempis/the-imitation-of-christ.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-kempis/the-imitation-of-christ/dispose-thyself-to-patience.md) Topics: [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > . . . there is no means of escaping from tribulation and sorrow, except to bear them patiently. [Thomas Kempis](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-kempis.md) · [The Imitation of Christ](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-kempis/the-imitation-of-christ.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-kempis/the-imitation-of-christ/there-is-no-means.md) Topics: [suffering](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/suffering.md), [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > And say not ‘I cannot bear these things from such a man, nor are things of this kind to be borne by me, for he hath done me grievous harm and imputeth to me what I had never thought: but from another I will suffer patiently, such things as I see I ought to suffer.’ Foolish is such a thought as this, for it considereth not the virtue of patience, nor by whom that virtue is to be crowned, but it rather weigheth persons and offences against self. [Thomas Kempis](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-kempis.md) · [The Imitation of Christ](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-kempis/the-imitation-of-christ.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-kempis/the-imitation-of-christ/and-say-not.md) Topics: [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > If thou seek rest in this life, how wilt them then attain to the everlasting rest? Dispose not thyself for much rest, but for great patience. Seek true peace — not in earth, but in heaven; not in men, nor in any other creature, but in God alone. [Thomas Kempis](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-kempis.md) · [The Imitation of Christ](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-kempis/the-imitation-of-christ.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-kempis/the-imitation-of-christ/if-thou-seek.md) Topics: [peace of mind](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace-of-mind.md), [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > Thou dwellest among foes, and art attacked on the right hand and on the left. If therefore thou use not on all sides the shield of patience, thou wilt not remain long unwounded. [Thomas Kempis](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-kempis.md) · [The Imitation of Christ](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-kempis/the-imitation-of-christ.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-kempis/the-imitation-of-christ/thou-dwellest-among.md) Topics: [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > Endeavour to be patient in bearing with other men’s faults and infirmities whatsoever they be, for thou thyself also hast many things which have need to be borne with by others. [Thomas Kempis](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-kempis.md) · [The Imitation of Christ](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-kempis/the-imitation-of-christ.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-kempis/the-imitation-of-christ/endeavour-to-be-patient.md) Topics: [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity. [Thomas Hardy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hardy.md) · [Tess of the D'Urbervilles](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hardy/tess-of-the-durbervilles.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hardy/tess-of-the-durbervilles/patience-that-blending.md) Topics: [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > What can’t be cured must be endured. [Paulo Coelho](https://www.leafyquotes.com/paulo-coelho.md) · [Aleph](https://www.leafyquotes.com/paulo-coelho/aleph.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/paulo-coelho/aleph/what-cant-be-cured.md) Topics: [suffering](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/suffering.md), [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > We warriors of light must be prepared to have patience in difficult times and to know the Universe is conspiring in our favor, even though we may not understand how. [Paulo Coelho](https://www.leafyquotes.com/paulo-coelho.md) · [The Alchemist](https://www.leafyquotes.com/paulo-coelho/the-alchemist.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/paulo-coelho/the-alchemist/we-warriors-of-light.md) Topics: [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. To dig for treasures shows not only impatience and greed, but lack of faith. Patience, patience, patience, is what the sea teaches. Patience and faith. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach — waiting for a gift from the sea. [Anne Morrow Lindbergh](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anne-morrow-lindbergh.md) · [Gift from the Sea](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anne-morrow-lindbergh/gift-from-the-sea.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anne-morrow-lindbergh/gift-from-the-sea/the-sea-does.md) Topics: [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md), [the sea](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-sea.md) > The mark of the truly civilized is their (truly baffling to the likes of you and me) patience with what truly baffles. [Samuel R. Delany](https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany.md) · [Tales of Neveryon](https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany/tales-of-neveryon.md) · p. 140 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany/tales-of-neveryon/the-mark-of-the.md) Topics: [civilization](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/civilization.md), [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > "I have a lot more patience for others than I have for myself, and I'm much better at bringing out the best in others than in myself. That's just the kind of person I am. I'm the scratchy stuff on the side of the matchbox. But that's fine with me. I don't mind at all. Better to be a first-class matchbox than a second-class match." [Haruki Murakami](https://www.leafyquotes.com/haruki-murakami.md) · [Norwegian Wood](https://www.leafyquotes.com/haruki-murakami/norwegian-wood.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/haruki-murakami/norwegian-wood/i-have-a-lot.md) Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md), [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > If you're in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark. [Haruki Murakami](https://www.leafyquotes.com/haruki-murakami.md) · [Norwegian Wood](https://www.leafyquotes.com/haruki-murakami/norwegian-wood.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/haruki-murakami/norwegian-wood/if-youre-in-pitch.md) Topics: [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > By the time it came to the edge of the Forest the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and, being grown-up, it did not run and jump and sparkle along as it used to do when it was younger, but moved more slowly. For it knew now where it was going, and it said to itself, "There is no hurry. We shall get there some day." [A.A. Milne](https://www.leafyquotes.com/aa-milne.md) · [The House at Pooh Corner](https://www.leafyquotes.com/aa-milne/the-house-at-pooh-corner.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/aa-milne/the-house-at-pooh-corner/by-the-time.md) Topics: [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md), [growing up](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/growing-up.md) > When I had the strength, I did not have the patience. I have the patience today and I no longer have the power. [Joseph Joubert](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-joubert.md) · [The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-joubert/the-notebooks-of-joseph-joubert.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-joubert/the-notebooks-of-joseph-joubert/when-i-had.md) Topics: [old age](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/old-age.md), [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > To judge things of taste, we must give ourselves time to taste them. [Joseph Joubert](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-joubert.md) · [The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-joubert/the-notebooks-of-joseph-joubert.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-joubert/the-notebooks-of-joseph-joubert/to-judge-things.md) Topics: [art](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/art.md), [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > Don't cut what you can untie. [Joseph Joubert](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-joubert.md) · [The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-joubert/the-notebooks-of-joseph-joubert.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-joubert/the-notebooks-of-joseph-joubert/dont-cut-what.md) Topics: [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > A zealous disciple expressed a desire to teach others the Truth and asked the Master what he thought about this. The Master said, "Wait." > > Each year the disciple would return with the same request and each time the Master would give him the same reply: "Wait." > > One day he said to the Master, "When will I be ready to teach?" > > Said the Master, "When your excessive eagerness to teach has left you." [Anthony De Mello](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anthony-de-mello.md) · [One Minute Wisdom](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anthony-de-mello/one-minute-wisdom.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anthony-de-mello/one-minute-wisdom/a-zealous-disciple.md) Topics: [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md), [teachers](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/teachers.md) > Prison itself is a tremendous education in the need for patience and perseverance. It is above all a test of one's commitment. [Nelson Mandela](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nelson-mandela.md) · [Long Walk to Freedom](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nelson-mandela/long-walk-to-freedom.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nelson-mandela/long-walk-to-freedom/prison-itself-is-a-tremendous.md) Topics: [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md), [prison](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/prison.md) > Superanda omnis fortuna ferendo est. [Virgil](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil.md) · [The Aeneid](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/superanda-omnis-fortuna.md) Topics: [fate](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fate.md), [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > Librarians, Dusty, possess a vast store of politeness. These are people who get asked regularly the dumbest questions on God's green earth. These people tolerate every kind of crank and eccentric and mouth-breather there is. [Garrison Keillor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/garrison-keillor.md) · [A Prairie Home Companion](https://www.leafyquotes.com/garrison-keillor/a-prairie-home-companion.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/garrison-keillor/a-prairie-home-companion/librarians-dusty-possess.md) Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md), [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md), [libraries](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/libraries.md) > Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience; or give it a more fascinating name: call it hope. [Jane Austen](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen.md) · [Sense and Sensibility](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/sense-and-sensibility.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/sense-and-sensibility/know-your-own.md) Topics: [happiness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/happiness.md), [hope](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hope.md), [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > If you happen to be one of the fretful minority who can do creative work, never force an idea; you'll abort it if you do. Be patient and you'll give birth to it when the time is ripe. Learn to wait. [Robert A. Heinlein](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein.md) · [Time Enough For Love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/time-enough-for-love.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/time-enough-for-love/if-you-happen.md) Topics: [art](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/art.md), [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > Young people -it is obvious -cannot achieve such a relationship, but they can, if they understand their life properly, grow up slowly to such happiness and prepare themselves for it. They must not forget, when they love, that they are beginners, bunglers of life, apprentices in love- must learn love, and that like all learning wants peace, patience, and composure. [Rainer Maria Rilke](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rainer-maria-rilke.md) · [Letters to a Young Poet](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rainer-maria-rilke/letters-to-a-young-poet.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rainer-maria-rilke/letters-to-a-young-poet/young-people-it-is-obvious.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [youth](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/youth.md), [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > There is probably no point in my going into your questions now; for what I could say about your tendency to doubt or about your inability to bring your outer and inner lives into harmony or about all the other thing that oppress you - : is just what I have already said: just the wish that you may find in yourself enough patience to endure and enough simplicity to have faith; that you may gain more and more confidence in what is difficult and in your solitude among other people. And as for the rest, let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always. [Rainer Maria Rilke](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rainer-maria-rilke.md) · [Letters to a Young Poet](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rainer-maria-rilke/letters-to-a-young-poet.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rainer-maria-rilke/letters-to-a-young-poet/there-is-probably.md) Topics: [life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life.md), [faith](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/faith.md), [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > Well, Watson, we can but possess our souls in patience and see what the hour may bring. [Arthur Conan Doyle](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-conan-doyle.md) · [The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-conan-doyle/the-case-book-of-sherlock-holmes.md) · p. 1053 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-conan-doyle/the-case-book-of-sherlock-holmes/well-watson-we-can.md) Topics: [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > “With patience and plenty of saliva the elephant deflowered the mosquito.” [Robert A. Heinlein](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein.md) · [Job: A Comedy of Justice](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/job-a-comedy-of-justice.md) · p. 369 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/job-a-comedy-of-justice/with-patience-and.md) Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md), [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > One does not persuade a butterfly to light on one’s hand by brandishing a sword. [Robert A. Heinlein](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein.md) · [Job: A Comedy of Justice](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/job-a-comedy-of-justice.md) · p. 145 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/job-a-comedy-of-justice/one-does-not.md) Topics: [violence](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/violence.md), [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > Trust Jerry. If He is to help you, He must do things beyond your ken. Would you try to direct a brain surgeon? Or attempt to hurry one? [Robert A. Heinlein](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein.md) · [Job: A Comedy of Justice](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/job-a-comedy-of-justice.md) · p. 402 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/job-a-comedy-of-justice/trust-jerry-if.md) Topics: [god](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/god.md), [trust](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/trust.md), [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > God's command comes; so seek not to hasten it. God's it is to show the way; and some do swerve from it. [Frank Herbert](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert.md) · [Children Of Dune](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/children-of-dune.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/children-of-dune/gods-command-comes.md) Topics: [god](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/god.md), [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > Endurance. Belief. Patience. Hope. These are the key words of our existence. [Frank Herbert](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert.md) · [Dune](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/dune.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/dune/endurance-belief-patience.md) Topics: [faith](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/faith.md), [hope](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hope.md), [perseverance](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/perseverance.md), [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" — which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing. [Frank Herbert](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert.md) · [Dune](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/dune.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/dune/the-fremen-were.md) Topics: [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md), [desire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/desire.md), [self-control](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/self-control.md) > Waiting always fills. [Robert A. Heinlein](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein.md) · [Stranger in a Strange Land](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/stranger-in-a-strange-land.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/stranger-in-a-strange-land/waiting-always-fills.md) Topics: [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md), [waiting](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/waiting.md) > He was not in a hurry, "hurry" being one human concept he had failed to grok at all. He was sensitively aware of the key importance of correct timing in all acts — but with the Martian approach: correct timing was accomplished by waiting. He had noticed, of course, that his human brothers lacked his own fine discrimination of time and often were forced to wait a little faster than a Martian would — but he did not hold their innocent awkwardness against them; he simply learned to wait faster himself to cover their lack. [Robert A. Heinlein](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein.md) · [Stranger in a Strange Land](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/stranger-in-a-strange-land.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/stranger-in-a-strange-land/he-was-not.md) Topics: [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md), [haste](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/haste.md) > Useful undertakings which require sustained attention and vigorous precision in order to succeed often end up by being abandoned, for, in America, as elsewhere, the people move forward by sudden impulses and short-lived efforts. [Alexis de Tocqueville](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alexis-de-tocqueville.md) · [Democracy in America](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alexis-de-tocqueville/democracy-in-america.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alexis-de-tocqueville/democracy-in-america/useful-undertakings-which.md) Topics: [America](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/america.md), [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > The quickest way is sometimes the longest. [Neil Gaiman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman.md) · [American Gods](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/american-gods.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/american-gods/the-quickest-way.md) Topics: [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > The worst speak something good; if all want sense, > > God takes a text, and preacheth Pa-ti-ence. [George Herbert](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-herbert.md) · [The Temple](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-herbert/the-temple.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-herbert/the-temple/the-worst-speak.md) Topics: [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > Some set out, like Crusaders of old, with a glorious equipment of hope and enthusiasm and get broken by the way, wanting patience with each other and the world. [George Eliot](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-eliot.md) · [Middlemarch](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-eliot/middlemarch.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-eliot/middlemarch/some-set-out.md) Topics: [hope](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hope.md), [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > Sir Henry Wotton was a most dear lover and a frequent practiser of the Art of Angling; of which he would say, "'T was an employment for his idle time, which was then not idly spent, a rest to his mind, a cheerer of his spirits, a diverter of sadness, a calmer of unquiet thoughts, a moderator of passions, a procurer of contentedness;" and "that it begat habits of peace and patience in those that professed and practised it." [Izaak Walton](https://www.leafyquotes.com/izaak-walton.md) · [The Compleat Angler](https://www.leafyquotes.com/izaak-walton/the-compleat-angler.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/izaak-walton/the-compleat-angler/sir-henry-wotton.md) Topics: [peace of mind](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace-of-mind.md), [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > There is another point to be considered which confirms the suitability of this method: it is the child's individual bent, which must be thoroughly known before we can choose the fittest moral training. Every mind has its own form, in accordance with which it must be controlled; and the success of the pains taken depends largely on the fact that he is controlled in this way and no other. Oh, wise man, take time to observe nature; watch your scholar well before you say a word to him; first leave the germ of his character free to show itself, do not constrain him in anything, the better to see him as he really is. Do you think this time of liberty is wasted? On the contrary, your scholar will be the better employed, for this is the way you yourself will learn not to lose a single moment when time is of more value. If, however, you begin to act before you know what to do, you act at random; you may make mistakes, and must retrace your steps; your haste to reach your goal will only take you further from it. [Jean Jacques Rousseau](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau.md) · [Emile; or On Education](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education/there-is-another.md) Topics: [character](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/character.md), [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md), [upbringing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/upbringing.md) > If there is something he should not do, do not forbid him, but prevent him without explanation or reasoning; what you give him, give it at his first word without prayers or entreaties, above all without conditions. Give willingly, refuse unwillingly, but let your refusal be irrevocable; let no entreaties move you; let your "No," once uttered, be a wall of brass, against which the child may exhaust his strength some five or six times, but in the end he will try no more to overthrow it. > > Thus you will make him patient, equable, calm, and resigned, even when he does not get all he wants; for it is in man's nature to bear patiently with the nature of things, but not with the ill-will of another. A child never rebels against, "There is none left," unless he thinks the reply is false. Moreover, there is no middle course; you must either make no demands on him at all, or else you must fashion him to perfect obedience. The worst education of all is to leave him hesitating between his own will and yours, constantly disputing whether you or he is master; I would rather a hundred times that he were master. [Jean Jacques Rousseau](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau.md) · [Emile; or On Education](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education/if-there-is-something.md) Topics: [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md), [upbringing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/upbringing.md) > Theories usually result from the precipitate reasoning of an impatient mind which would like to be rid of phenomena and replaces them with images, concepts, indeed often with mere words. [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe](https://www.leafyquotes.com/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe.md) · [Maxims and Reflections](https://www.leafyquotes.com/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/maxims-and-reflections.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/maxims-and-reflections/theories-usually-result.md) Topics: [science](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/science.md), [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > ".... for she is very ill indeed, and suffers a vast deal, though with the greatest patience in the world, which is always the way with her, for she has, without exception, the sweetest temper I ever met with." [Jane Austen](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen.md) · [Pride and Prejudice](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/pride-and-prejudice.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/pride-and-prejudice/for-she-is-very.md) Topics: [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > Not sedulous by Nature to indite > > Warrs, hitherto the onely Argument > > Heroic deem'd, chief maistrie to dissect > > With long and tedious havoc fabl'd Knights > > In Battels feign'd; the better fortitude > > Of Patience and Heroic Martyrdom > > Unsung [John Milton](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-milton.md) · [Paradise Lost](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-milton/paradise-lost.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-milton/paradise-lost/not-sedulous-by-nature.md) Topics: [courage](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/courage.md), [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > Arm th' obdur'd breast > > With stubborn patience as with triple steel. [John Milton](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-milton.md) · [Paradise Lost](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-milton/paradise-lost.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-milton/paradise-lost/arm-th-obdurd.md) Topics: [perseverance](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/perseverance.md), [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > Our patience will achieve more than our force. [Edmund Burke](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edmund-burke.md) · [Reflections on the Revolution in France](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edmund-burke/reflections-on-the-revolution-in-france.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edmund-burke/reflections-on-the-revolution-in-france/our-patience-will.md) Topics: [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > I was too restless to watch long; I am too Occidental for a long vigil. I could work at a problem for years, but to wait inactive for twenty-four hours—that is another matter. [H.G. Wells](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hg-wells.md) · [The Time Machine](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hg-wells/the-time-machine.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hg-wells/the-time-machine/i-was-too.md) Topics: [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md) > Those who are prone, by temperament and character, to seek sharp and clear-cut solutions of difficult and obscure problems, who are ready to fight whenever some challenge comes from a foreign power, have not always been right. On the other hand, those whose inclination is to bow their heads, to seek patiently and faithfully for peaceful compromise, are not always wrong. On the contrary, in the majority of instances they may be right, not only morally, but from a practical standpoint. How many wars have been averted by patience and persisting good will! Religion and virtue alike lend their sanctions to meekness and humility, not only between men but between nations. How many wars have been precipitated by firebrands! How many misunderstandings which led to wars could have been removed by temporizing! How often have countries fought cruel wars and then after a few years found themselves not only friends but allies! [Winston S. Churchill](https://www.leafyquotes.com/winston-s-churchill.md) · [The Second World War: Closing The Ring](https://www.leafyquotes.com/winston-s-churchill/the-second-world-war-closing-the-ring.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/winston-s-churchill/the-second-world-war-closing-the-ring/those-who-are.md) Topics: [war](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/war.md), [patience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patience.md)