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Quotes on patience and trusting the timing of life. This hand-picked collection brings together 29 of the finest patience quotes ever written — from William Shakespeare, English Proverb, Lao Tzu and other great voices. Tap Copy on any quote to save or share it.

Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.

— William Shakespeare

The greatest remedy for anger is delay — count to ten and breathe.

Don't count your chickens before they hatch.

— English Proverb

Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness.

— Lao Tzu

Patience is a conquering virtue.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

No matter how hot your anger is, it cannot cook yams.

— African Proverb

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

— Lao Tzu

Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.

— Charles Dickens

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

— Mahatma Gandhi

He that can have patience can have what he will.

— Benjamin Franklin

The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.

— Lewis Carroll

adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Short cuts make long delays.

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Let the husband render to his wife the affection she deserves: kindness, patience and time.

The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.

— Leo Tolstoy

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.

— A. A. Milne

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

— Aristotle

The best answer comes from the lips of the one who is insulted.

— Arabic Proverb

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

— Dalai Lama

Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.

— Buddha

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

— Seneca

Take your time healing — the world can wait, but your health cannot be rushed.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

— Chinese Proverb

Charity is a kind of love, a love that has learned patience.

— Albert Camus

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

— Confucius

They also serve who only stand and wait.

— John Milton

Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience — or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.

— Jane Austen

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

— Robert Frost

Qualities a father should have: love in his heart, patience in his hands, and time in his schedule.

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