37 Quotes About Patience and Tolerance

Having the ability to deal with other’s in times of pressure can bring him or her an unexpected blessing. These quotes about patience and tolerance will inspire you to take deep breaths and take challenges with ease.

“A waiting person is a patient person. The word patience means the willingness to stay where we are and live the situation out to the full in the belief that something hidden there will manifest itself to us.”

“All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.”

“Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.”

“Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.”

“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.”

“He that can have patience can have what he will.”

“I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.”

“I believe in a world of opposites and that’s why I avoid people with rigid and inflexible personalities.”

“I don’t like that new age posture where you kind of tilt your head. I don’t like that posture right now. I want something a little more confident and more sure of the values that we’re defending, which are the old ones, love and empathy and patience and tolerance and civility.”

“I love those who do not know how to live for today.”

“I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.”

“If we could look into each other’s hearts and understand the unique challenges each of us faces, I think we would treat each other much more gently, with more love, patience, tolerance, and care.”

“If you can cultivate the right attitude, your enemies are your best spiritual teachers because their presence provides you with the opportunity to enhance and develop tolerance, patience and understanding.”

“It is expressions of affection rather than money and power that attract real friends.”

“Love opens all doors, no matter how tightly closed they may be, no matter how rusty from lack of use. Your work is to bring unity and harmony, to open all those doors which have been closed for a long time. Have patience and tolerance. Open your heart all the time.”

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

“No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility.”

“Patience is a conquering virtue.”

“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”

“Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.”

“Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.”

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

“The highest result of education is tolerance.”

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

“The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.”

“The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion, patience, tolerance, humility, and forgiveness.”

“There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself.”

“There’s no advantage to hurrying through life.”

“They are signs of strength.”

“To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.”

“Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness.”

“Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one’s own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.”

“Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience – I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed.”

“Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you.”

“We cannot overcome anger and hatred simply by suppressing them. We need to actively cultivate the antidotes: patience and tolerance.”

“We need to strengthen such inner values as contentment, patience and tolerance, as well as compassion for others. Keeping in mind that it is expressions of affection rather than money and power that attract real friends, compassion is the key to ensuring our own well-being.”

“When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.”

Travel is just one way to deal with ongoing pressures and difficulties.