“Patience is the only way you can endure the gray periods.”

“Patience is the vehicle to determination, the mother of endurance..”

Dr. Manuel

“but curiosity is a restless and scrupulous passion, and no one girl can endure, with patience, that hers should be baffled by another.”

J. Sheridan Le Fanu book Carmilla

“Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.”

John Ruskin (1819–1900) English writer and art critic

“The way from where we are to where we want to be next is a gray zone full of unforeseeable obstacles, problems, and issues that we can only discover along the way.”

Mike Rother (1958) American business academic

“Endurance is the crowning quality,
And patience all the passion of great hearts.”

James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat

“Patience is only one faculty; earnestness the devotion of all the faculties. Earnestness is the cause of patience; it gives endurance, overcomes pain, strengthens weakness, braves dangers, sustains hope, makes light of difficulties, and lessens the sense of weariness in overcoming them.”

Christian Nestell Bovee (1820–1904) American writer

“Military folk," Neal said with exaggerated patience, shaking his head. "The only way you know to solve problems is by beating them with a stick.”

Tamora Pierce book Lady Knight

“There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man.”

Alan Paton (1903–1988) South African writer and activist

“It's an odd feeling-farewell-there is some envy in it. Men go off to be tested for courage and if we're tested at all, it's for patience, for doing without, for how well we can endure loneliness.”

Karen Blixen (1885–1962) Danish writer