When you mature in your relationship with God you realize how suffering and patience are like eating your spiritual vegetables.

A wise man does not try to hurry history. Many wars have been avoided by patience and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.

Strength comes from waiting.

The strong, manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience. Patience means restraining one's inclinations. There are seven emotions: joy, anger, anxiety, love, fear, grief, and hate; and if a man does not give way to these, he can be called patient. I am not as strong as I might be, but I have long known and practiced patience.

Patience is the art of hoping.

How poor are they that have not patience! What wounds did ever heal but by degrees?

Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

... the patience of Job ...

Let us proceed with caution, and concentrating our strength, add to it daily by winning over to our side those barons who are vassals of Shimazu. Then, when Satsuma stands alone, like a tree shorn of its leaves and branches, we will attack and destroy the root.

But the waiting time, my brothers, Is the hardest time of all.

Whoever knocks persistently, ends by entering.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope.

You lose a little but gain a lot by being patient.

Patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.

To lose patience is to lose the battle.

Never cut what you can untie.

A noble, courageous man is recognizable by the patience he shows in adversity.