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.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

18.

Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.

Brian Adams

19.

To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success.

Maistre, Joseph De

20.

Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

Forbes, B. C.

21.

Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

22.

Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.

Chesterfield, Lord

23.

Patience is power; with time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.

Proverb, Chinese

24.

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

25.

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; she requires the hand of time.

Voltaire

26.

Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

28.

Work and wait, work and wait is what God says to us in creation.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

29.

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.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

30.

I do oppose my patience to his fury, and am arm'd to suffer with a quietness of spirit, the very tyranny and rage of his.

William Shakespeare

31.

There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.

Franz Kafka

32.

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.

Einstein, Albert

33.

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

Epictetus

34.

Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

35.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

36.

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

37.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.

Isaac Newton

38.

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

Saadi

39.

If you are tempted to lose patience with your fellowman; stop and think how patient God has been with you.

40.

Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper sprinkle cool patience.

William Shakespeare

41.

Of all the things that tax a man's patience, there's nothing to compare with a stuck zipper.

42.

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.

Epictetus

43.

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

Carrey, Jim

44.

A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.

Faulkner, William

45.

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

46.

Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

47.

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

William Shakespeare

48.

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 then be powerless to vex your mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

49.

Like farmers we need to learn that we cannot sow and reap the same day.

50.

Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb