Best Patience Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“A life is not a waste of time”

“Sometimes the answers arrive before the questions do — a quiet knowing that guides us even when the path isn’t clear.”

“The path to true understanding is rarely a perfectly smooth one. Sometimes, a little patience is required.”

“The river doesn’t rush to be heard, yet it carves stone. That’s the kind of patience we need now.”

“If the path forward seems unclear, plant something. Care for it. Let the seasons teach you what comes next.”

“Sometimes it's better to be kind than to be right. We do not need an intelligent mind that speaks, but a patient heart that listens. You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.”

“Patience Is Not the Ability to Wait:”

“The most inefficient and self-harming thing a person can do is go out looking for love. Let it find you when the time is right and you're out doing what you love to do. Only then will you find it in its truest form.”

“And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far into the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.”

“This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don't get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can't do anything, don't get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it's ready to come undone. You have to realize it's going to be a”

“I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.”

“You cannot rush a tree into bloom. And you cannot force a soul to heal. Time is not a threat—it’s a companion.”

“What the world sees as delay might actually be divine timing, wrapped in stillness and mystery.”

“Ofttimes we are prone to want to see things move along faster than they sometimes do. We are inclined to force an issue, to have a showdown, to force our patterns of thought and action on others. We think time will not wait. But often we will make haste by going a little slower.”

“You don’t need to be the smartest, the earliest, or the loudest. You need to be the one who keeps going — quietly, patiently, and with a system.”

“Patience is supported & nurtured by a quality of forgiveness.”

“The more you practice sitting with the discomfort, the more you gently (and repeatedly) redirect your cast toward something new, the more your nervous system starts to believe you. It starts to whisper, “Hey… maybe we’re okay now. Maybe we can rest. Maybe we don’t have to hustle for our worth.”

“Even the best inborn potentialities for achievement do not render unnecessary patient and persistent practice.”

“We must accept the reality that the causes of impatience travel a two-way street.”

“Peaceful disputes are maintained when men sincerely believe that they are morally, logically correct about the issues at hand. It is when neither side is really certain that wars are instigated.”

“For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching has become a regular habit, until he is able to admit and accept what he finds, and until he patiently and persistently tries to correct what is wrong. – Bill W.”

“The years I have squandered in puerile excitement, in going hither and thither, in seeking to force nature and time, I ought to have spent in solitude and meditation, in endeavoring to make myself worthy of being loved.”

“Wise men are not pacifists; they are merely less likely to jump up and retaliate against their antagonizers. They know that needless antagonizers are virtually already insecure enough.”

“Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.”

“The best teachers have showed me that things have to be done bit by bit. Nothing that means anything happens quickly--we only think it does. The motion of drawing back a bow and sending an arrow straight into a target takes only a split second, but it is a skill many years in the making. So it is with a life, anyone's life. I may list things that might be described as my accomplishments in these few pages, but they are only shadows of the larger truth, fragments separated from the whole cycle of becoming. And if I can tell an old-time story now about a man who is walking about, waudjoset ndatlokugan, a forest lodge man, alesakamigwi udlagwedewugan, it is because I spent many years walking about myself, listening to voices that came not just from the people but from animals and trees and stones.”

“Why should we place Christ at the top and summit of the human race? Was he kinder, more forgiving, more self-sacrificing than”

“I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.”

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“Listening. It's not something for which Protestants are usually well known. In our activist piety we have tended toward prophetic pronouncements rather than quiet listening. As Father Guy, one of the first monks I met, put it, "Samuel said, "Speak, Lord, for thy servant is listening'; we more often say, 'Listen, Lord, for thy servant is speaking.”

“As Father Guy, one of the first monks I met, put it, "Samuel said, "Speak, Lord, for thy servant is listening'; we more often say, 'Listen, Lord, for thy servant is speaking.”