“Little by little, through patience and repeated effort, the mind will become stilled in the Self.”
“Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; Hold fast; Hold out. Patience is genius.”
“It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.”
“A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.”
“The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.”
“The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.”
“If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives.”
“If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.”
“It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.”
“Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.”
“My son, observe the postage stamp! Its usefulness depends upon its ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.”
“Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.”
“Let me look upward into the branches of the flowering oak and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well.”
“All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.”
“Sometimes it helps to know that I just can't do it all. One step at a time is all that's possible -- even when those steps are taken on the run.”
“Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.”
“Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.”
“I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.”
“The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach-waiting for a gift from the sea.”
“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.”
“In all evils which admits a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes the time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might remove the cause.”
“There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.”
“Consider the hour-glass; there is nothing to be accomplished by rattling or shaking; you have to wait patiently until the sand, grain by grain, has run from one funnel into the other.”
“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 you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.”
“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 -”
“I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.”
“Every man must patiently bide his time. He must wait -- not in listless idleness but in constant, steady, cheerful endeavors, always willing and fulfilling and accomplishing his task, that when the occasion comes he may be equal to the occasion.”
“Patience permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord when we are tossed about by suffering as if by surf. When the undertow grasps us we will realize that we are somehow being carried forward even as we tumble. We are actually being -helped even as we cry for help.”
“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.”
“Be patient. The path of self-discipline that leads to God-realization is not an easy path: obstacles and sufferings are on the path; the latter you must bear, and the former overcome -- all by His help. His help comes only through concentration. Repetition of God's name helps concentration.”