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Quotes about Patience

Let nothing disturb you, nothing frighten you, all things are passing, God is unchanging. Patience gains all; nothing is lacking to those who have God: God alone is sufficient.
— Teresa of Avila
So also in a marriage or in helping a teenager through a difficult identity crisis—there is no quick fix, where you can just move in and make everything right with a positive mental attitude and a bunch of success formulas.
— Stephen Covey
We can actually live out the trials and temptations of the day before they come. We can in prayer deal with all our unrighteous aspirations, selfishness, perverse inclinations, impatience, anger, procrastination. This is a form of spiritual creation.
— Stephen Covey
People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
— Stephen Hawking
Patience gives your spouse permission to be human. It understands that everyone fails. When a mistake is made, it chooses to give them more time that they deserve to correct it. It gives you the ability to hold on during the rough times in your relationship rather than bailing out under the pressure.
— Stephen Kendrick
God give me patience, to reconcile with what I am not able to changeGive me strength to change what I canAnd give me wisdom to distinguish one from another.
— Marcus Aurelius
The slow pace of our perfection has to be borne with patience, provided that on our part we always do whatever we can to continue advancing.
— Francis de Sales
At the end of every dark storm is a bright rainbow.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
If you stop tending to flowers when they lose a few petals, you will never grow a garden.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Don't waste time watering a weed hoping to transform it into a flower.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
If bees only gathered nectar from perfect flowers, they wouldn't be able to make even a single drop of honey.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
You can't go to Heaven hating somebody. Forgive now. Be compassionate now. Be patient now. Be grateful now. Love Jesus and Mary now. Accept God's will now.
— Mother Angelica