100+ Patience Quotes to Calm Your Soul and Mind

Patience Quotes

Mastering patience is an art. Being quiet is different from being patient. You can be quiet because someone told you to be, but you cannot be quiet all the time. Being patient is a self-made decision where you see things as they are, without any exaggeration or drama. Patience comes with practice. Try meditation to master patience, and you will find that all the chaos in your head will start to fall into place. Over time, peace will be achieved. Scroll down for the best quotes about patience.

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Strength Patience Quotes

1. “Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.” —Hal Borland
2. “Have patience with all things but first of all with yourself.” —Francis de Sales
3. “Patience is the road to wisdom.” —Kao Kalia Yang
4. “To lose patience is to lose the battle.” —Mahatma Gandhi
5. “Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.” —Jean-Jacques Rousseau
6. “Maybe that’s why life is so precious. No rewind or fast forward… just patience and faith.” —Cristina Marrero
7. “Two things define you: your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.” —George Bernard Shaw
8. “I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.” —Lao Tzu
9. “With love and patience, nothing is impossible.” —Daisaku Ikeda
10. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” —Confucius
11. “Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.” —Plautus
12. “Patience is when you’re supposed to get mad, but you choose to understand.” —Anonymous
13. “Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.” —A.A. Milne
14. “When it comes to patience, we don’t have to change old habits; we can build better ones.” —Sue Bender
15. “Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.” —Ovid
16. “When you have self-knowledge, you’re naturally calm and poised. You overcome obstacles with ease. They are part of your plan.” —Maxime Lagacé
17. “It is very strange that the years teach us patience — that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.” —Elizabeth Taylor
18. “I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.” —Abraham Lincoln
19. “The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.” —Leo Tolstoy
20. “Sometimes things aren’t clear right away. That’s where you need to be patient and persevere and see where things lead.”

Relationship Patience Quotes

1. Stay calm and patient that the right person will arrive at the right time.– Anonymous
2. Remember, waiting in love doesn’t mean stopping to love. Love is the greatest blessing in our life.– Anonymous
3. Love is not about how long I can wait for someone, but finding the true meaning of what I’m waiting for.– Anonymous
4. Keep patience, it is happening for you somewhere. – Lovely Goyal
5. Any great love comes from intense sufferings. – Ndiritu Wahome
6. Patience with others is love, patience with self is hope, patience with God is faith. – Enkiquotes
7. Don’t let loneliness drive you back into the arms of someone you know you don’t belong with. – The Bridalbox
8. It is important to be intuitive at this time and allow the natural course to show you the way to the next step. – Auliq Ice
9. Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.” ―John Keats
10. There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.” ―J. G. Holland
11. Love is patient, love is kind, love is the way you make yourself mine. – Iliketoquote.com
12. Maybe we’ll meet again, when we are slightly older and our minds are less hectic, and I’ll be right for you and you’ll be right for me. – Gabrielle Zevin
13. Yearning for love is like yearning for food. Something to make the body feels real good, for love is like food, we all really need. So yearning for it is wonderful indeed. – Hubert Winston Anderson
14. The course of true love never did run smooth. ―William Shakespeare
15. Waiting is a sign of true love and patience. Anyone can say I love you, but not everyone can wait and prove it’s true. – Enkiquotes
16. If you really love that person, learn to wait. Maybe you are not meant to be together today but meant to be in future. – Enkiquotes
17. In the book of love, every chapter begins with patience.– Anonymous
18. Someday our souls will be one and our union will be forever. I know that everything I give you comes back to me. So, I give you my life, hoping that you will come back to me. – Rumi
19. Don’t give up on the people you love. Your patient love and faithfulness may be exactly what they need to make a complete turnaround. – Enkiquotes
20. True love is being patient and waiting for the right moment to be together. – Enkiquotes

Bible Quotes About Patience

1. "Better to be patient than a warrior, and better to have self-control than to capture a city."
2. "We who are powerful need to be patient with the weakness of those who don’t have power, and not please ourselves."
3. "Preach the word. Be ready to do it whether it is convenient or inconvenient. Correct, confront, and encourage with patience and instruction."
4. "But this is why I was shown mercy, so that Christ Jesus could show his endless patience to me first of all. So I'm an example for those who are going to believe in him for eternal life."
5. "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control…"
6. "We're praying this so that you can live lives that are worthy of the Lord and pleasing to him in every way: by producing fruit in every good work and growing in the knowledge of God; by being strengthened through his glorious might so that you endure everything and have patience."
7. "...He shows patience to those who have sinned, since they are his own creation."
8. "Love is patient, love is kind, it isn’t jealous, it doesn’t brag, it isn’t arrogant."
9. "Don't be anxious about anything; rather, bring up all of your requests to God in your prayers and petitions, along with giving thanks."
10. "Be happy in your hope, stand your ground when you’re in trouble, and devote yourselves to prayer."
11. "Let’s not get tired of doing good, because in time we’ll have a harvest if we don’t give up."
12. "Conduct yourselves with all humility, gentleness, and patience. Accept each other with love."
13. "Hotheads stir up conflict, but patient people calm down strife."
14. "The Lord is good to those who hope in him, to the person who seeks him. It's good to wait in silence for the Lord's deliverance. It's good for a man to carry a yoke in his youth."
15. "I put all my hope in the Lord. He leaned down to me; he listened to my cry for help."
16. "The end of something is better than its beginning. Patience is better than arrogance."
17. "You also must wait patiently, strengthening your resolve, because the coming of the Lord is near."
18. "Patience leads to abundant understanding, but impatience leads to stupid mistakes."
19. "But if we hope for what we don’t see, we wait for it with patience."
20. "The Lord will fight for you. You just keep still."

Meaningful Patience Quotes

1. "When you’re feeling overwhelmed or your body is giving you signs that you’re overdoing it; stop, breathe, and remember one thing: everything can wait. Fall in love with you. Love, support, validate, and nourish a relationship with yourself.” — Alexis Jones
2. "Somehow you’ll escape all that waiting and staying. You’ll find the bright places where Boom Bands are playing.”
3. "When people are waiting, they are bad judges of time, and every half minute seems like five.” — Jane Austen
4. "Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart." — Rainer Maria Rilke
5. "Waiting is a sustained effort to stay focused on God through prayer and belief.” — Max Lucado
6. "The Waiting Place...for people just waiting. Waiting for a train to go or a bus to come, or a plane to go or the mail to come, or the rain to go or the phone to ring, or the snow to snow or the waiting around for a Yes or No or waiting for their hair to grow. Everyone is just waiting." — Dr. Seuss
7. "All your life you wait, and then it finally comes, and are you ready?” — Anthony Doerr
8. "Sometimes the trick to getting the best of a situation was just to wait.” — Leigh Bardugo
9. "People will show you their good side. Almost everybody has a good side. Just keep waiting. It will come out." — Randy Pausch
10. "The singular mark of patience is not endurance or fortitude but hope. To be impatient . . . is to live without hope." — Tish Harrison Warren
11. "Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence." — Hal Borland
12. "The problem is that contemporary people think life is all about finding happiness. We decide what conditions will make us happy and then we work to bring those conditions about. To live for happiness means that you are trying to get something out of life. But when suffering comes along, it takes the conditions for happiness away, and so suffering destroys all your reason to keep living. But to “live for meaning” means not that you try to get something out of life but rather that life expects something from us. In other words, you have meaning only when there is something in life more important than your own personal freedom and happiness, something for which you are glad to sacrifice your happiness." — Tim Keller
13. "Everyone wants a revolution. No one wants to do the dishes." — Tish Harrison Warren
14. "Often, life won't be gentle with you, so you have to become gentle with yourself." — Irini Zoica
15. "Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.” — Khaled Hosseini
16. "Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.” — Sophia Amoruso
17. "I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.” — Margaret Thatcher
18. "We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world." — Helen Keller
19. "Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come." — Robert H. Schuller
20. "Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
21. "Whoever is patient has great understanding, but one who is quick-tempered displays folly." — Proverbs 14:29

Famous Patience Quotes

1. "Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit." — Moliere
2. "The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it." — Arnold H. Glasow
3. "Face-to-face conversation unfolds slowly. It teaches patience." — Sherry Turkle
4. "Slow and steady wins the race." — Aesop
5. "Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience - I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed." — CeeLo Green
6. "Patience is a conquering virtue." — Geoffrey Chaucer
7. "Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent." — Billy Graham
8. "Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day." — A.A. Milne
9. "Life is full of challenges, but I always have the Three Ps: Passion, patience and persistence. And the fourth one is pizza." — Butch Hartman
10. "Perfection is attained by slow degrees; she requires the hand of time." — Voltaire
11. "Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up." — Anne Lamott
12. "Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that is patience." — Leo Tolstoy
13. "Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty." — John Ruskin
14. "Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures." — Joseph Addison
15. "Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength." — Charles Caleb Colton
16. "Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and try to have patience, if you can." — J.R.R. Tolkien
17. "Sometimes things aren't clear right away. That's where you need to be patient and persevere and see where things lead." — Mary Pierce
18. "One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life." — Chinese Proverb
19. "Whoever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul." — Francis Bacon
20. "The two most powerful warriors are patience and time." — Leo Tolstoy
21. "Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting." — Joyce Meyer
22. "The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others." — Erik Erikson