Patience Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Patience quotes, Patience sayings, and Patience proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.


A loving heart is the truest wisdom.      -- Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
Absence is to love as wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small and enkindles the great.      -- Comte de Bussy-Rabutin (1618-1693)
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.     -- Thomas Haynes Bayly (1797-1839)
Accidents will happen      -- George Colman (1732-1794)
He who wants to do good, knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gates open.      -- R. Tagore Thakur
It takes two to tangle.      -- unknown
Kindness is more persuasive than force.      -- Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
Love is often the fruit of marriage.     -- French (on marriage)
Love isn't love until you give it away.      -- John H. MacDonald Jr. 1992
Love me, love my dog.      -- St. Bernard of Clairvaux (12th century)
Love will find a way.      -- unknown
Not all who make love, make marriages.     -- Russian (on marriage)
One who marries for love alone will have bad days but good nights.     -- Egyptian (on marriage)
Parting is such sweet sorrow.      -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.      -- Arabic (on faith)
When the heart is full, the tongue will speak.      -- Scottish (on eloquence)
You can't buy love.      -- unknown