A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.
~Dutch Proverb

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