“Don’t cross the bridge until you come to it.” –  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.” – Rainer Maria Rilke

“It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.” – Julius Caesar

“Patience in all things is your crucial shield.” – Robert Greene 

“Patience is a conquering virtue.” – Geoffrey Chaucer

“Patience isn’t a virtue; it’s a necessity.” – Lou Holtz

“Endurance is patience concentrated.” – Thomas Carlyle

“If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.” – Hal Borland

“The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in adversity.” – Seneca

“A leaf that is destined to grow large is full of grooves and wrinkles at the start. Now if one has no patience and wants it smooth offhand like a willow leaf, there is trouble ahead.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Patience, a willingness to completely surrender to the process, and the importance of listening.” – Unknown

“I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.” – Lao Tzu

“Everything comes if a man will only wait.” – Benjamin Disraeli

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”- Confucius

“Nothing else is necessary but these – love, sincerity, and patience.” – Swami Vivekananda 

“Patience is the key to paradise.” – Turkish proverb

“Change is slow and gradual. It requires hard work, a bit of luck, a fair amount of self-sacrifice, and a lot of patience.” – Robert Greene

“Our patience will achieve more than our force.” – Edmund Burke

“Whoever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.” –  Francis Bacon

“Grain by grain a loaf, stone by stone, a castle.” – Yugoslavian saying