Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day.
—Rainer Maria Rilke
Never go out to meet trouble. If you will just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
—Calvin Coolidge
What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn!
—Logan Pearsall Smith
I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
—Margaret Thatcher
Hope for love, pray for love, wish for love, dream for love… but don’t put your life on hold waiting for love.
—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman
Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.
—Simone Weil
I have many things I want out of life, but I’m practical. I know that I must wait to get what I want.
—Jude Deveraux in Counterfeit Lady
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
—William H. Borah
Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.
—George Jackson
There is no such thing as a weird human being, It’s just that some people require more understanding than others.
—Tom Robbins
At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.
—P.G. Wodehouse
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
—John Updike
I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
—Isaac Newton
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
—Oscar Wilde
The charm which Henry [Thoreau] uses for bird and frog and mink is patience. They will not come to him, or show him aright, until he becomes a log among logs, sitting still for hours in the same place; then they come around him and to him, and show themselves at home.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson