Patience Quotes

So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.

I just say the moral out of my life is don’t quit at age 65, maybe your boat hasn’t come in yet. Mine hadn’t.

Step by step and you will get to the place you want to be.⁠

Let nothing disturb thee, let nothing affright thee. All things are passing. Patience obtains all things. He who has God has everything – God alone suffices.

I’ve always been aware that the image you patiently construct for an entire career can be ruined in a minute. It scares you a bit, but that’s the way things are.

You can have it all, just not all at the same time.

But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows.

Hope is patience with the lamp lit.

No man can give me any word but Wait.

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.