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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 tasks anew.

Francis de Sales

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

Saint Augustine

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold.
For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power
to hurt you.  So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet
with great wrongs, and they will be powerless to vex your mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

Fred van Amburgh

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Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes
or a fig.  If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer that there must be
time.  Let the tree first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Epictetus

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Johann von Schiller

There is no road too long to the person who advances deliberately
without undue haste; no honors too distant to the person who
prepares him or herself for them with patience.

Jean La Bruyere

Patience is neither weariness nor dreary surrender.  It is a positive virtue,
the capacity to wait for opportunity. . . .
   There are many images that portray patience:  The lioness waiting in the
high grass for her prey to pass by, making no movement for hours except for
gentle twitches of her tail.  The old monk waiting for God; the ancient eyes
filled with wisdom, his mind and body filled with tranquility.  Another image
is the picture of the slow growth of the solid oak tree.  Imperceptibly, little
by little, the acorn becomes a tree.  Slowly--that's how it becomes so strong.
   We live in a time when speed seems to be essential.  Fast trains, fast cars,
fast walking, fast-food restaurants.  Even our perception of growth is speeded
up with the use of the stop-frame camera.
   There is nothing wrong with speed in itself, but a question is forced upon us.
Does speed necessarily require us to be unreflective?  If so, then we are rushing
into lives that are not reflected upon, not examined.  This is dangerous.
Perhaps we do have to make room for patience in our lives--a little room
to breathe.  Patience.  Patience.

Edward J. Lavin

When the hard times of life come, we know that no matter how tragic
the circumstances seem, no matter how long the spiritual drought,
no matter how long and dark the days, the sun is sure to break through;
the dawn will come.  The warmth of His assurance will hold us in an embrace
once again, and we will know that our God has been there all along.
We will hear him say, through it all, “Hold on, my child, joy comes in the morning!”

Gloria Gaither

They who can have patience can have what they will.

Benjamin Franklin

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shapes of pains,
losses, and disappointments; but let us have patience,
and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

Joseph Addison

Patience is learning how to wait when you really don't want to.  It's
discovering things you like to do while you're waiting, and becoming
so happy with. . . what you're doing that you forget you're waiting.
Patience is taking time every day to dream your dreams and develop
the confidence in yourself to change your dreams into reality.  Patience
is being good to yourself and having the faith to hold on to your dreams,
even as days go by when you can't see how they will come true.
Patience is loving others even when they disappoint you and you don't
understand them.  It's knowing how to let go and accept others as they
are and forgive them for things they have done.  Patience is loving
yourself and giving yourself time to grow; it's doing things that keep you
healthy and happy, and it's knowing that you deserve the best in life
and are willing to work for it, no matter how long it takes.
Patience is being willing to face whatever challenges life gives you,
realizing that life has also given you the strength and courage to endure
and deal with each challenge.  Patience is the ability to continue to love
and laugh no matter what your circumstances may be, because you
recognize that in time those circumstances will change, and that love
and laughter are what give life deeper meaning, and you the
determination to continue to have patience.

Donna Levine

On the whole, it is patience which makes the final difference
between those who succeed or fail in all things. All the greatest
people have it in an infinite degree, and among the less, the
patient weak ones always conquer the impatient strong.

John Ruskin

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