"Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that is patience. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time." ~ Leo Tolstoy
"Be patient. Do the best with what you know. When you know more, adjust the trajectory." ~ Jen Hatmaker
"Some of your greatest blessings come with patience." ~ Warren W. Wiersbe
"The people who test your patience are a blessing.. Without them, you can't practice patience." ~ Nouman Ali Khan
"Patience is the companion of wisdom." ~ Saint Augustine
"Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success." ~ Napoleon Hill
"The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter." ~ Paulo Coelho
"Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting." ~ Joyce Meyer
"Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy." ~ Saadi
"Patience and time do more than strength or passion." ~ Jean de La Fontaine
"Above all, trust in the slow work of God." ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
"He who has infinite patience and infinite energy at his back, will alone succeed." ~ Swami Vivekananda
"Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is "timing" it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way." ~ Fulton J. Sheen
"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Patient waiting is often the highest way of doing God's will." ~ Jeremy Collier
"The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit." ~ Moliere
"A waiting person is a patient person. The word patience means the willingness to stay where we are and live the situation out to the full in the belief that something hidden there will manifest itself to us." ~ Henri Nouwen
"Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour." ~ Ovid
"Be content to progress in slow steps until you have legs to run and wings with which to fly." ~ Pio of Pietrelcina
"Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength." ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
"The principle part of faith is patience." ~ George MacDonald
"Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears." ~ Barbara Johnson
"Endurance is patience concentrated." ~ Thomas Carlyle
"Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them -- every day begin the task anew." ~ Saint Francis de Sales
"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time." ~ Leo Tolstoy
"The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen." ~ Ralph Marston
"If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent" ~ Isaac Newton
"To lose patience is to lose the battle." ~ Mahatma Gandhi
"He that can have patience can have what he will." ~ Benjamin Franklin
"There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient." ~ Sivananda
"We have to slow the rhythm of rush in our lives so that the best of who are can emerge." ~ Lysa TerKeurst
"Inner peace is impossible without patience. Wisdom requires patience. Spiritual growth implies the mastery of patience. Patience allows the unfolding of destiny to proceed at its won unhurried pace." ~ Brian Weiss
"We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world." ~ Helen Keller
"If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees." ~ Hal Borland
"All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it." ~ Thomas a Kempis
"Purity, patience and perseverance overcome all obstacles. All great things must of necessity be slow." ~ Swami Vivekananda
"Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence." ~ Hal Borland