Inspirational Quotes on Patience

“I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.”

“I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.”

“We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.”

“Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.”

“To keep our faces toward change, and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate, is strength undefeatable.”

“Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature.”

“I thank God for my handicaps for, through them, I have found myself, my work, and my God.”

“The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.”

“A door that seems to stand open must be of a man's size, or it is not the door that providence means for him.”

“We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.”

“If you are affronted it is better to pass it by in silence, or with a jest, though with some dishonor, than to endeavor revenge. If you can keep reason above passion, that and watchfulness will be your best defenders.”

“If I have made any improvement in the sciences, it is owing more to patient attention than to anything beside.”

“If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.”

“Affect not little shifts and subterfuges to avoid the force of an argument.”

“There is always a prepared place for a prepared person.”

“Be deaf to the quarrelsome, blind to the scorner and dumb to the inquisitive.”

“Do daily and hourly your duty; do it patiently and thoroughly. Do it as it presents itself; do it at the moment, and let it be its own reward. Never mind whether it is known and acknowledged or not, but do not fail to do it.”

“Great things are not accomplished by idle dreams, but by years of patient study.”

“He who bears failure with patience is as much of a philosopher as he who succeeds; for to put up with the world needs as much wisdom as to control it.”

“Patience is the queen of virtues.”