Patience is genius. [ Buffon ]

The truest fortitude. [ Milton ]

Patience with poverty
Is a poor man's remedy.

Genius is just patience. [ French Proverb ]

Patience is sorrow's salve. [ Churchill ]

Genius is eternal patience. [ Michael Angelo ]

Patient endurance is Godlike. [ Longfellow ]

Abused patience turns to fury. [ Proverb ]

Patience is the art of hoping. [ Vauvenargues ]

Genius is only great patience. [ Buffon ]

To bear is to conquer our fate. [ Campbell ]

In your patience ye are strong. [ Miss Barrett ]

Let us then be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate,
Still achieving, still pursuing.
Learn to labor and to wait. [ Longfellow ]

Patience, and shuffle the cards. [ Cervantes ]

Patience provoked turns to fury. [ Proverb ]

Beware the fury of a patient man. [ Dryden ]

To endure is greater than to dare. [ Thackeray ]

Patience is the courage of virtue. [ Bernardin de St. Pierre ]

Patience and gentleness are power. [ Leigh Hunt ]

The world is his who has patience. [ Italian Proverb ]

Endurance is patience concentrated. [ Carlyle ]

Patience grows not in every garden. [ Proverb ]

Great is the advantage of patience. [ Tillotson ]

Patience and time conquer all things [ Corneille ]

To revenge is no valor, but to bear. [ William Shakespeare ]

Thy peace shall be in much patience. [ Thomas a Kempis ]

Patience is a plaister for all sores. [ Proverb ]

Indolence is often taken for patience. [ French Proverb ]

Patience is a remedy for every sorrow. [ Publius Syrus ]

Patience - in patience there is safety. [ Laboulaye ]

They also serve who only stand and wait. [ Milton ]

The principal part of faith is patience. [ George MacDonald ]

Patience is nobler motion than any deed. [ Bartol ]

Since you will buckle fortune on my back;
To bear her burden whe'r I will or no,
I must have patience to endure the load. [ William Shakespeare ]

Patience, sovereign over transmuted ills. [ Dr. Johnson ]

How poor are they who have not patience!
What wound did ever heal, but by degrees? [ William Shakespeare ]

Everything comes if a man will only wait. [ Beaconsfield or Benjamin Disraeli ]

Patience and fortitude conquer all things. [ Emerson ]

Patience and pusillanimity are two things. [ Proverb ]

Prosperity knows not the worth of patience. [ Proverb ]

What I have done is due to patient thought. [ Sir Isaac Newton ]

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. [ Rousseau ]

I work with patience, which is almost power. [ Mrs. Browning ]

When our hopes break, let our patience hold. [ Thomas Fuller ]

If knowledge is power, patience is powerful. [ Robert Hall ]

A man without patience is a lamp without oil. [ A. de Musset ]

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius. [ Benjamin Disraeli ]

Love yet lives, and patience shall find rest. [ Keble ]

Every misfortune is to be subdued by patience. [ Virgil ]

Patience is the best buckler against affronts. [ Proverb ]

There are times when patience proves at fault. [ Robert Browning ]

Peace and patience, and death with repentance. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Reason deceives us often, - conscience, never.
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. [ Jean J. Rousseau ]

Patience and application will carry us through. [ Proverb ]

No class escapes them - from the poor man's pay
The nostrum takes no trifling part away;
Time, too, with cash is wasted; 'tis the fate
Of real helpers, to be called too late;
This find the sick, when time and patience gone
Death with a tenfold terror hurries on. [ Crabbe ]

Sense of pleasure we may well
Spare out of life perhaps, and not repine.
But live content, which is the calmest life;
But pain is perfect misery, the worst
Of evils, and excessive, overturns All patience. [ Milton ]

He that can have patience can have what he will. [ Benjamin Franklin ]

Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man. [ Tertullian ]

Patience upon force is a medicine for a mad dog. [ Proverb ]

Come what, come may:
Time and the hour runs through the roughest day. [ William Shakespeare ]

Patience, time, and money accommodate all things. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. [ Emerson ]

Fortify courage with the true rampart of patience. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

To know how to wait is the great secret of success. [ De Maistre ]

Patience and time do more than strength or passion. [ La Fontaine ]

Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience. [ Buffon ]

All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer. [ Proverb ]

Patience, money and time, brings all things to pass. [ Proverb ]

Patience, when outraged often, is converted into rage. [ Proverb ]

Set not thyself to attain much rest, but much patience. [ Thomas a Kempis ]

Patience is a stout horse, but it will tire at the last. [ Proverb ]

Patience - with patience everything comes in due season. [ Laboulaye ]

He who says patience, says courage, endurance, strength. [ Marie Ebner-Eschenbach ]

At the least bear patiently, if thou canst net joyfully. [ Thomas a Kempis ]

With time and patience, the mulberry-leaf becomes satin. [ Proverb ]

He that hath patience, hath fat thrushes for a farthing. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Patience is good for abundance of things besides the gout. [ Proverb ]

Servants should put on patience when they put on a livery. [ Proverb ]

Whoever is out of patience is out of possession of his soul. [ Bacon ]

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty. [ Ruskin ]

It is easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient. [ George Eliot ]

Patience and perseverance overcome the greatest difficulties. [ Clarissa ]

Genius is nothing else than a sovereign capacity for patience. [ Buffon ]

It is easy for a man in health to preach patience to the sick. [ Proverb ]

Though we lose our fortune, yet we should not lose our patience. [ Proverb ]

Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper sprinkle cool patience. [ William Shakespeare ]

In doubtful matters, courage may do much, in desperate, patience. [ Proverb ]

Reason bears disgrace, courage combats it, patience surmounts it. [ Mme. de Sevigne ]

What is the use of patience, if we cannot find it when we want it? [ Proverb ]

The king-becoming graces - devotion, patience, courage, fortitude. [ William Shakespeare ]

Arm the obdured breast with stubborn patience as with triple steel. [ Milton ]

Patience and length of time accomplish more than violence and rage. [ La Fontaine ]

There is no well-doing, no Godlike doing, that is not patient doing. [ J. G. Holland ]

He that will have a cake of the wheat must needs tarry the grinding. [ William Shakespeare ]

Though God take the sun out of the heaven, yet we must have patience. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Job was not so miserable in his sufferings, as happy in his patience. [ Proverb ]

There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue. [ Burke ]

Time, patience, and industry are the three great masters of the world. [ Proverb ]

Patience is the panacea; but where does it grow, or who can swallow it? [ Shenstone ]

Patience, the second bravery of man, is perhaps greater than the first. [ Antonio de Solis ]

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience is the ruin of strength. [ Colton ]

Accustom yourself to that which you bear ill, and you will bear it well. [ Seneca ]

We usually learn to wait only when we have no longer anything to wait for. [ Marie Ebner-Eschenbach ]

Patience is the strongest of strong drinks, for it kills the giant Despair. [ Douglas Jerrold ]

It is not the suffering, but the cause and the patience that makes a martyr. [ Proverb ]

Patience is even more rarely manifested in the intellect than in the temper. [ A. Helps ]

Patience cannot remove, but it can always dignify and alleviate, misfortune. [ Laurence Sterne ]

Patience is only one faculty; earnestness, the devotion of all the faculties. [ C. N. Bovee ]

Fortune often rewards with interest those that have patience to wait for her. [ Proverb ]

By woe the soul to daring action steals; by woe in plaintless patience it excels. [ Savage ]

Whatever sorrows may be thy doom, bear them with patience, if necessity entail them. [ Homer ]

Man little knows what calamities are beyond his patience to bear till he tries them. [ Goldsmith ]

In teaching patience and perseverance, also Nature teaches us a secret of happiness. [ Newell Dwight Hillis ]

There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting. [ J. G. Holland ]

Even the best must own patience and resignation are the pillars of human peace on earth. [ Young ]

There are few husbands whom the I wife cannot win in the long run, by patience and love. [ Marguerite de Valois ]

Avowed work, even when uncongenial, is far less trying to patience than feigned pleasure. [ Hamerton ]

A litigant at law should have three bags: one of papers, one of money, and one of patience. [ Proverb ]

The hate which we all bear with the most Christian patience is the hate of those who envy us. [ Colton ]

Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on! hold fast! hold out! Patience is genius. [ Count de Buffon ]

By their patience and perseverance God's children are truly known from hypocrites and dissemblers. [ Augustine ]

Patience is the ballast of the soul that will keep it from rolling and tumbling in the greatest storms. [ Bishop Hopkins ]

Cheerfulness accompanies patience, which is one of the main conditions of happiness and success in life. [ Samuel Smiles ]

A true Christian man is distinguished from other men, not so much by his beneficent works as by his patience. [ Horace Bushnell ]

Truth is to be costly to you - of labour and patience; and you are never to sell it, but to guard and to give. [ John Ruskin ]

It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience. [ Horace Bushnell ]

If thou hast no inferiors, have patience awhile, and thou shalt have no superiors. The grave requires no marshal. [ Quarles ]

Either a wise man will not go into bunkers, or, being in, he will endure such things as befall him wJth patience. [ A. Lang ]

The man who has taken one wife deserves a crown of patience; the man who has taken two deserves two crowns of folly. [ Proverb ]

It is in length of patience, endurance and forbearance that so much of what is good in mankind and womankind is shown. [ Arthur Helps ]

Patience alleviates, as impatience augments, pain; thus persons of strong will suffer less than those who give way to irritation. [ Swift ]

Sweetness of spirit and sunshine is famous for dispelling fears and difficulties; patience is a mighty help to the burden-bearer. [ James Hamilton ]

No school is more necessary to children than patience, because either the will must be broken in childhood or the heart in old age. [ Richter ]

Affliction is the wholesome soul of virtue; Where patience, honor, sweet humanity. Calm fortitude, take root, and strongly flourish. [ Mallet and Thomson ]

Jesus wept once; possibly more than once. There are times when God asks nothing of His children except silence, patience, and tears. [ Charles S. Robinson ]

Patience is very good, but perseverance is much better; while the former stands as a stoic under difficulties, the latter whips them out of the ring. [ Elizabeth Appleton ]

We should manage our fortune like our constitution; enjoy it when good, have patience when bad, and never apply violent remedies but in cases of necessity. [ La Roche ]

Friendship has the skill and observation of the best physician, the diligence and vigilance of the best nurse, and the tenderness and patience of the best mother. [ Earl of Clarendon ]

There are few husbands whom the wife cannot win in the long run by patience and love, unless they are harder than the rocks which the soft water penetrates in time. [ Marguerite de Valois ]

There is a patience that cackles. There are a great many virtues that are hen-like. They are virtues to be sure; but everybody in the neighborhood has to know about them. [ Beecher ]

The fortitude of a Christian consists in patience, not in enterprises which the poets call heroic, and which are commonly the effects of interest, pride and worldly honor. [ Dryden ]

There is but one thing necessary to keep the possession of true glory, which is to hear the opposers of it with patience, and preserve the virtue by which it was acquired. [ Steele ]

All was ended now, the hope and the fear and the sorrow, all the aching of heart, the restless, unsatisfied longing, fill the dull, deep pain, and constant anguish of patience. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Tribulation worketh patience: and patience, experience; and experience, hope. That is the order. You can not put patience and experience into a parenthesis, and, omitting them, bring hope out of tribulation. [ Alexander Maclaren ]

Earnestness is the cause of patience; it gives endurance, overcomes pain, strengthens weakness, braves dangers, sustains hope, makes light of difficulties, and lessens the sense of weariness in overcoming them. [ Bovee ]

Some very dull and sad people have genius though the world may not count it as such; a genius for love, or for patience, or for prayer, maybe. We know the divine spark is here and there in the world: who shall say under what manifestations, or humble disguise! [ Anne Isabella Thackeray ]

How often a new affection makes a new man! The sordid, cowering soul turns heroic. The frivolous girl becomes the steadfast martyr of patience and ministration, transfigured by deathless love. The career of bounding impulses turns into an anthem of sacred deeds. [ Chapin ]

A phlegmatic insensibility is as different from patience as a pool from a harbor; into the one, indolence naturally sinks us; but if we arrive at the other, it is by encountering many an adverse wind and rough wave, with a more skillful pilot at the helm than self, and a company under better command than the passions. [ L. W. Dilwyn ]

If thy desire to raise thy fortunes encourage thy delights to the casts of fortune, be wise betimes, lest thou repent too late; what thou gettest, thou gainest by abused providence; what thou losest, thou losest by abused patience; what thou winnest is prodigally spent; what thou losest is prodigally lost; it is an evil trade that prodigality drives; and a bad voyage where the pilot is blind. [ Quarles ]

If I were to choose the people with whom I would spend my hours of conversation, they should be certainly such as labored no further than to make themselves readily and clearly apprehended, and would have patience and curiosity to understand me. To have good sense and ability to express it are the most essential and necessary qualities in companions. When thoughts rise in us fit to utter among familiar friends, there needs but very little care in clothing them. [ Steele ]

It is to be hoped that, with all the modern improvements, a mode will be discovered of getting rid of bores: for it is too bad that a poor wretch can be punished for stealing your pocket handkerchief or gloves, and that no punishment can be inflicted on those who steal your time, and with it your temper and patience, as well as the bright thoughts that might have entered into your mind (like the Irishman who lost the fortune before he had got it), but were frightened away by the bore. [ Byron ]

Man little knows what calamities are beyond his patience to bear till he tries them; as in ascending the heights of ambition, which look bright from below, every step we rise shows us some new and gloomy prospect of hidden disappointment; so in our descent from the summits of pleasure, though the vale of misery below may appear, at first, dark and gloomy, yet the busy mind, still attentive to its own amusement, finds, as we descend, something to flatter and to please. Still as we approach, the darkest objects appear to brighten, and the mortal eye becomes adapted to its gloomy situation. [ Goldsmith ]