Practice meditation to become more patient and to improve your concentration on the task at hand.
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
-- Saint Augustine (354 AD - 430 AD)
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
-- Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924)
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
- Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)
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 (1452 - 1519)
Patience is the art of hoping.
- Marquis De Vauvenargues, Reflections and Maxims (1746) no. 251.
Durate, et vosmet rebus servate secundis.
Persevere and preserve yourselves for better circumstances.
-- Virgil, Æneid (29-19 BC), I. 207.
Superanda omnis fortuna ferendo est.
Every misfortune is to be subdued by patience.
-- Virgil, Æneid (29-19 BC), V. 710.
Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim.
Have patience and endure; this unhappiness will one day be beneficial.
- Ovid, Amorum (16 BC), III. 11. 7.
Superanda omnis fortuna ferendo est.
Every misfortune is to be subdued by patience.
Virgil, Æneid (29-19 BC), V. 710.
Patience and diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
- William Penn, Some Fruits of Solitude In Reflections And Maxims (1682) no. 234.
Font plus que force ni que rage.
By time and toil we sever
What strength and rage could never.
- Jean de La Fontaine, Fables, II. 11.
Rule by patience, Laughing Water!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Song of Hiawatha (1855), Part X. Hiawatha's Wooing.
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, A Psalm of Life, Stanza 9.
All things come round to him who will but wait.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Tales of a Wayside Inn, The Student's Tale, Part I.
Endurance is the crowning quality,
And patience all the passion of great hearts.
- James Russell Lowell, Columbus, line 241.
Sua quisque exempla debet æquo animo pati.
Every one ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.
Phaedrus, Fables, I. 26. 12.
La patience est amère, mais son fruit est doux.
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
~Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
Nihil tam acerbum est in quo non æquus animus solatium inveniat.
There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind can not find some solace for it.
Seneca, De Animi Tranquilitate, X.
Furor fit læsa sæpius patientia.
Patience, when too often outraged, is converted into madness.
-- Syrus, Maxims. 289.
La patience est l'art d'espérer.
Patience is the art of hoping.
-- Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues, Réflexions, CCLI.
It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.
- Horace Bushnell, p. 443.
Teach me to feel that Thou art always nigh;
Teach me the struggles of the soul to bear;
To check the rising doubt, the rebel sigh;
Teach me the patience of unanswered prayer.
- George Croly, p. 444.
Patience is enduring love; experience is perfecting love; and hope is exulting love.
- Alexander Dickson, p. 442.
It is easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.
- George Eliot, p. 443.
With strength and patience all his grievous loads are borne,
And from the world's rose-bed he only asks a thorn.
- William R. Alger, Oriental Poetry, Mussud's Praise of the Camel.
But there are times when patience proves at fault.
- Robert Browning, Paracelsus, scene 3.
There is however a limit, at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.
- Edmund Burke, Observations on a Late Publication on the Present State of the Nation.
Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
- Benjamin Disraeli, Contarini Fleming, Part IV, Chapter V.
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