Quotes about Patience
The wicked exist in this world either to be converted or that through them the good may exercise patience.
— St. Augustine
Patience cannot remove, but it can always dignify and alleviate, misfortune.
— Laurence Sterne
Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
— Tertullian
We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in us patience, humility, contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country.
— CS Lewis
Our problem is that we often expect instantaneous solutions to such challenges, forgetting that frequently the heavenly virtue of patience is required.
— Thomas Monson
But pain is perfect misery, the worst of evils, and excessive, overturns all patience.
— John Milton
May nothing wind you up, nothing affright you; everything comes and goes. God, still, just there; through patience all will be achieved. If you have God, you lack nothing: God alone will do.
— Teresa of Avila
For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill.
— Samuel Johnson
May we always say thank you to God, especially for his patience and mercy.
— Pope Francis
Patience means self-suffering.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The waiting itself is beneficial to us: it tries faith, exercises patience, trains submission, and endears the blessing when it comes.
— Charles Spurgeon
Set not thyself to attain much rest, but much patience.
— Thomas a Kempis