How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young? ~Paul Sweeney


Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead. ~Mac McCleary


Patience is the ability to count down before you blast off. ~Author Unknown


Beware the fury of a patient man. ~John Dryden, Absolam and Achitophel, 1680


Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request. ~Lord Chesterfield


Patience: A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue. ~Ambrose Bierce


You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. ~Franklin P. Jones


Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience. ~George-Louis de Buffon


Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. ~John Quincy Adams


Patience is the companion of wisdom. ~St. Augustine


Patience is also a form of action. ~Auguste Rodin


How poor are they that have not patience!
What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
~William Shakespeare, Othello, 1604


One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life. ~Chinese Proverb


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