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Quotes about patience

Words on patience — gathered from across the ages, set on the page.

Sometimes the wait is longer because the blessing is bigger.
— Anonymous
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
— Lao Tzu
Drops of water hollow out a stone.
— Ovid
If you are wholly perplexed and in straits, have patience; patience is the key to joy.
— Rumi
It is best to endure what you cannot change.
— Seneca
Nothing great is produced suddenly, since not even the grape or the fig is.
— Epictetus
Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
— Leo Tolstoy
A violent wind does not outlast the morning; a squall of rain does not outlast the day. Such is the course of Nature. And if Nature herself cannot sustain her efforts long, how much less can man!
— Lao Tzu
Step by step walk the thousand-mile road.
— Miyamoto Musashi
If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?
— Rumi
Whoever enters the Way without a guide will take a hundred years to travel a two-day journey.
— Rumi
One swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.
— Aristotle
It's okay to rebuild slower than you broke down.
— Anonymous
The strongest of all warriors are these two: Time and Patience.
— Leo Tolstoy
Good things take time.
— Anonymous
Trust the timing of your life.
— Anonymous
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
— Lao Tzu
The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
— David Hume
Nature loves to hide.
— Heraclitus