Our patience will achieve more than our force.

No thing great 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.

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Real excellence does not come cheaply. A certain price must be paid in terms of practice, patience, and persistence—natural ability notwithstanding.

A patient man will eat ripe fruit.

Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As something is being passed around it comes to you; stretch out your hand, take a portion of it politely. It passes on; do not detain it. Or it has not come to you yet; do not project your desire to meet it, but wait until it comes in front of you. So act toward children, so act toward a wife, so toward office, so toward wealth.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owning more to patient attention, than to any other talent.

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

My strength is made perfect in weakness.

Old age is no place for sissies.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.