Seneca the Younger Quotes

To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship.

Be patient. Patience is the mother of all virtues.

The disciple must have great power of endurance. Bear all evil and misery without one thought of unhappiness, resistance, remedy, or retaliation. That is true endurance, and that you must acquire.

Set not thyself to attain much rest, but much patience.

Patience means self-suffering.

Let us bear with magnanimity whatever it is needful for us to bear.

Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.

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

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.

The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience.

Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is "timing" it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.

Your passion must be tempered with patience. Maybe long-suffering patience would be a better word.

Have patience, and endure

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

Patience is a grace as difficult as it is necessary, and as hard to come by as it is precious when it is gained.

Possess your soul with patience.

What may not be altered is made lighter by patience.

Strength comes from waiting.

Patience is moral elasticity.

I've accrued a kind of patience, I believe, loosely like change.

Active valour may often be the present of nature; but such patient diligence can be the fruit only of habit and discipline.

Patience is the strength of the weak, impatience is the weakness of the strong.

Patience takes courage. It is not an ideal state of calm. In fact, when we practice patience we will see our agitation far more clearly.

If you seek patience, you will find no better example than the cross. Great patience occurs in two ways: either when one patiently suffers much, or when one suffers things which one is able to avoid and yet does not avoid. Christ endured much on the cross, and did so patiently, because when he suffered he did not threaten; he was led like a sheep to the slaughter and he did not open his mouth.