30 Great Quotes about Being Patient

Get inspired by quotes about being patient. Patience can lead to many great things and help you overcome challenging situations.

30 patience quotes

1. “Learning patience can be a difficult experience, but once conquered you will find life is easier.” – Catherine Pulsifer

2. “Nature does not hurry yet everything is accomplished.” – Lao Tzu

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3. “Patience is the companion of wisdom.” – Saint Augustine

4. “Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.” – Edward Bulwer-Lytton

5. “Patience can’t be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.” – Eknath Easwaran

6. “He that can have patience can have what he will.” – Benjamin Franklin

7. “Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.” – Napoleon Hill

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8. “Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.” – Aristotle

9. “Patience is not the ability to wait. Patience is to be calm no matter what happens, constantly take action to turn it to positive growth opportunities, and have faith to believe that it will all work out in the end while you are waiting.” – Roy Bennett

10. “A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose, a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve.” – John C. Maxwell

11. “Patience is a key element of success.” – Bill Gates

12. “Sometimes things aren’t clear right away. That’s where you need to be patient and persevere and see where things lead.” – Mary Pierce

13. “Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.” – Saadi

14. “All great achievements require time.” – Maya Angelou

15. “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” – Albert Einstein

16. “Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.” – A.A. Milne

17. “Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.” – Bruce Lee

18. “Change is slow and gradual. It requires hard work, a bit of luck, a fair amount of self-sacrifice, and a lot of patience.” – Robert Greene

19. “Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.” – Billy Graham

20. “If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.” – Mahatma Gandhi

21. “Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.” – Joyce Meyer

22. “Growth and greatness often come from those seemingly endless, fruitless days of discipline. Keep working, keep at it, believe.” – Brendon Burchard

23. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius

24. “Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it’s done right.” – Walt Disney

25. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill

26. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison

27. “The easy days ahead of you will be easy. It is the hard days, the times that challenge you to your very core, that will determine who you are. You will be defined not just by what you achieve, but by how you survive.” – Sheryl Sandberg

28. “I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.” – John D. Rockefeller

29. “Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.” – Thomas Carlyle

30. “Perseverance is also key to success in any endeavor, but without perseverance in combat, there can be no victory.” – Jocko Willink

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