Quotes about patience

As if reading his mind, Jamal-al-Din said, 'To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate." (p61)

Patience is a narcotic for the weak.

Stories, like food, lose their flavor if cooked in a hurry.

Education means cultivating patience, tolerance, a sweet disposition, harmony, abnegation, and temperateness. Anyone who cultivates these virtues is truly educated.

“Any idiot,” he said calmly but with immense conviction, “can learn anything in mathematics. It requires only patience.”

What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.

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.

“Patience, my friend.”

“I’m not your friend. And I’m not patient.”

The skill I was learning was a crucial one, the patience to read things I could not yet understand.

“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.”

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.

Life had taught her to be brave, to be patient, to love, to forgive.