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.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

25.

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

26.

Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.

Auden, W. H.

27.

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

Margaret Thatcher

28.

Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.

George Jackson

29.

Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

30.

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.

Chaplin, Charlie

31.

Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

32.

Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.

Massinger, Philip

33.

How poor are they that have not patience. What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

Shakespeare, William

34.

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

35.

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength

Colton, Charles Caleb

36.

All things come to him who waits -- provided he knows what he is waiting for.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

37.

Patience is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not.

Granville, George

38.

Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

Johnson, Barbara

39.

Patience and the passage of time do more than strength and fury.

La Fontaine, Jean De

40.

Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.

Saadi

41.

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.

Schaef, Anne W.

42.

If I'm not back in five minutes... just wait longer!

Carrey, Jim

43.

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

Roux, Joseph

44.

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

45.

With close-lipped Patience for our only friend, Sad Patience, too near neighbor to Despair.

Arnold, Matthew

46.

It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

Elizabeth Taylor

47.

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.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

48.

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.

Ramdas, Swami

49.

Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

50.

Had it pleas'd heaven to try me with affliction... I should have found in some place of my soul a drop of patience.

William Shakespeare