Do not ask for fulfillment in all your life, but for patience to accept frustration.
Do not ask for perfection in all you do, but for the wisdom not to repeat mistakes.
Do not ask for more, before saying "Thank You" for what you have already received.--Brenda Short

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight... When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.--Helen Keller

Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours. Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.--Phillips Brooks

Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.--George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon

The greatest power is often simple patience.--E. Joseph Cossman

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?--William Shakespeare (Othello)

Humility is attentive patience.--Simone Weil (First and Last Notebooks)

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.--Margaret Thatcher (The Observer, 1989)

I think and think for months and years, ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.--Albert Einstein

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

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.--Arnold H. Glasgow

Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.--Frank McKiney Hubbard

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.--Carl Sandburg

Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.--George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.--Epictetus

An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains.--Dutch Proverb

Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.--William Penn

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.--Jean de LaFontaine

Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.--Eknath Easwaran

Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.--George Jackson

Patience is bitter, but it's fruit is sweet.--Lida Clarkson ("Brush Studies" Ladies' Home Journal, 1884)

Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.--Soren Kierkegaard (Journal)

Patience is the art of caring slowly.--John Ciardi

Patience is the companion of wisdom.--Saint Augustine

Patience is the key to contentment.--Mohammed

Patience will achieve more than force.--Edmund Burke

The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.--Lawrence G. Lovasik (The Hidden Power of Kindness)

There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.--Jean De La Bruyere

There is no royal road to anything, one thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.--Josiah Gilbert Holland

To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forego even ambition when the end is gained--who can say this is not greatness?--William M. Thackeray

To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.--Coventry Patmore

To know how to wait is the great secret of success.--Joseph Marie De Maistre 

To lose patience is to lose the battle.--Mahatma Gandhi

The twin killers of success are impatience and greed.--Jim Rohn (Jim Rohn's Weekly E-zine March 18, 2003)

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.--Leo Tolstoy