200+ Best Quotes About Patience In Love And Relationship

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Quotes about patience in love help relieve the anxiety that might sometimes arise in our relationships. Everyone believes that everything happens for a reason and that God already has a plan in action. But, we are only human, and we often fail to have patience and desire success at the earliest. This is the cause of many problems in one’s love life and relationships. It is important to have equanimity and composure in one’s relationship and life. It also takes time and patience for love to happen and the relationship to grow. Patience in love is a vital quality that nurtures understanding and strengthens relationships, helping couples navigate challenges and grow together. Read on for a few inspirational quotes that will help you understand love and relationships better.

200+ Quotes About Patience In Love And Relationship

Patience is a key component of any relationship. Contrary to what people think, liking someone does not reduce patience. It has been found that the stronger liking or love we feel for someone or something, the more patient we are. It is because when people really like who they are waiting for, they see the option of waiting for them as far more valuable than getting them right away (1).

So, here is our collection of quotes on patience in love and relationships that will inspire you to practice patience in your life. Read on.

Quotes About Patience In Love

You need to have the patience to find your true love. However, it will not come easily.

Blogger Melvin Davis focuses on the importance of patience in his blog and writes, “Developing patience did not come to me overnight. In fact, it took nearly two years… My understanding of wasting time, as well as understanding the importance of timing, aided me in coming to a resting point. My heart finally let my mind know that I would not find love by looking for it at a time when I’m not suppose(d) to. So I threw up my hands and surrendered. And I feel so much at peace—no rush—no worries (i).”

Here are some love quotes on patience in love that will inspire you to face your love life struggles with perseverance.

1. Patience is not sitting and waiting, it is foreseeing. It is looking at the thorn and seeing the rose, looking at the night and seeing the day. Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full.― Rumi

2. We’ve lost a lot of years, but you can’t lose love. Not real love. It stays locked inside you, ready for whenever you are strong enough to find it again.― Martina Boone
3. Some people find love right away, while others don’t. I haven’t, but will when the time is right.― Julio Bonilla
4. Be patient. The best is yet to come. — Unknown
5. I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.  — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
6. Having patience always gives you what you deserve.― Fatma Alfalasi
7. Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.”  — Joyce Meyer
8. When you love something, you won’t give it up for anything”― Zybejta “Beta” Metani’ Marashi
9. In love, all kinds of love, we wait. If I can’t be your dawn, I will be your sunset.”― Rossana Condoleo
10. Instead of saying, ‘Next time he does this, I will …’, say, ‘Next time he does that, I will show him more patience and more love.’― Ace Antonio Hall
11. The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. — Eden Phillpotts
12. Waiting needs patience, and with patience comes the magic to achieve success — Unknown
13. Love is the treasure we seek and patience is the compass that guides our way. — Unknown
14. The magic of love is available to us all; we have to learn how to align ourselves so we can connect to its source, doing so will allow magic an opening to manifest in our lives.― Micheline Jean Louis
15. With love and patience, nothing is impossible. — Unknown
16. If you have patience, then you’ll also have love. Patience leads to love. — Mata Amritanandamayi
17. For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice – no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service. — John Burroughs
18. If we could look into each other’s hearts and understand the unique challenges each of us faces, I think we would treat each other much more gently, with more love, patience, tolerance, and care. – Marvin J. Ashton
19. Patience is a virtue and love is a war. Fighting for each other is a choice that you make everyday but it’s worth it. — Unknown
20. Remember not to fall in love with the one who says the right thing, but have patience to fall in love with the one who does the right thing. — Unknown
21. Don’t rush into love. You’ll find the person meant for you when you least expect it.” ―Franzie Gubatina
22. No one has patience for love except their own. – Marjorie Celona
23. Love, patience, and meekness can be just as contagious as rudeness and crudeness.  — Neal A. Maxwell
24. An alternative to love is not hate but patience. — Santosh Kalwar
25. No one has patience for love except their own. – Marjorie Celona
26. Falling in love is easy, but staying in love is something very special. It takes a lot of work, patience, and understanding. — Unknown
27. Fall in love when you are ready, not when you are lonely.  — Unknown
28. Never rush into falling in love; because love never runs out. Let love be the one to knock at your door. Besides, true love is worth waiting for. — Unknown
29. Women often feel we are in a constant state of yearning, wanting to love but not receiving it.” ―Bell Hooks
30. We don’t need anything but ourselves yet we want more when we find the right one. ― Marni S. Feldman
31. Stay calm and patient that the right person will arrive at the right time. — Unknown
32. Patience with others is love, patience with self is hope, patience with God is faith. — Unknown
33. Don’t let loneliness drive you back into the arms of someone you know you don’t belong with. — Unknown
34. It is important to be intuitive at this time and allow the natural course to show you the way to the next step. — Auliq Ice
35. Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.” ―John Keats
36. There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.” ―J. G. Holland
37. Remember, waiting in love doesn’t mean stopping to love. Love is the greatest blessing in our life. — Unknown
38. Love is not about how long I can wait for someone, but finding the true meaning of what I’m waiting for.  — Unknown
39. Keep patience, it is happening for you somewhere. — Lovely Goyal
40. Any great love comes from intense sufferings. — Ndiritu Wahome
41. To be in love means being patient, but to be patient you must trust him first. — Unknown

42. With patience you understand the virtue of true love. — Unknown
43. Her presences or absences didn’t matter a lot I always painted picture with her.”― Sonjay Singh
44. Love and peace are not just words, they are a way of life. And in an honest living, love will always conquer.― Ahmad Ardalan
45. Love is not an affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained. — C. S. Lewis
46. Patience is the avenue that leads to the heart’s deepest and unfulfilled desires. — Unknown
47. Your love made it all worth waiting for someone like you. ―Dean Martin
48. God hears and sees you. He knows your deepest desires, and wants to fulfill them. But sometimes we just have to be patient.― Chloe M. Gooden
49. Sometimes, it pays to wait. Never hurry. Let infatuation die a natural death and give birth to true love when it’s time. — Unknown
50. Love will always win. It may take some time, patience. But it will prevail. — Haiku
51. Love is patient, love is kind, love is the way you make yourself mine. — Unknown
52. Maybe we’ll meet again, when we are slightly older and our minds are less hectic, and I’ll be right for you and you’ll be right for me. — Gabrielle Zevin
53. Yearning for love is like yearning for food. Something to make the body feels real good, for love is like food, we all really need. So yearning for it is wonderful indeed. — Hubert Winston Anderson
54. The course of true love never did run smooth. ―William Shakespeare
55. Waiting is a sign of true love and patience. Anyone can say I love you, but not everyone can wait and prove it’s true. — Unknown
56. If you really love that person, learn to wait. Maybe you are not meant to be together today but meant to be in future. — Unknown
57. In the book of love, every chapter begins with patience. — Unknown
58. Someday our souls will be one and our union will be forever. I know that everything I give you comes back to me. So, I give you my life, hoping that you will come back to me. — Rumi
59. Don’t give up on the people you love. Your patient love and faithfulness may be exactly what they need to make a complete turnaround. — Unknown
60. True love is being patient and waiting for the right moment to be together. — Unknown
61. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. — 1 Corinthians 13:4-7
62. Patience is good when you love someone. — Unknown
63. What we need is a cup of understanding, a barrel of love, and an ocean of patience.  — Unknown
64. Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you – Loretta Young
65. My longing to find love did not make me lose my sense of reason or perspective.―Bell Hooks
66. Always wait patiently for love. Let love be the one to knock at your door first, so that you feel it’s real. — Unknown Anonymous
67. I will wait for you as long as it takes. I will love you every moment across time.”―Lauren Kate
68. Love comes with respect and patience, and the one that carries it will understand you every step of the way.  — Unknown
69. Be worthy, love, and love will come. — Louisa May Alcott
70. Love cannot be found where it does not exist. There’s a difference between being patient with someone and wasting your time. – Lillian Smith
71. At some point in life someone will love you more than what you have expected. Be patient and learn to wait because sometimes, a patient person receives the best love story.  — Virginia Ramirez
72. Love isn’t enough to keep the relationship going. It takes a lot of effort and patience to make the commitment stronger. — Emily Bell
73. He that can have patience can have what he will. — Benjamin Franklin
74. The wait is long, my dream of you does not end. — Nuala O’Faolain
75. The right person will come, once you have suffered enough to deserve her.―Juvenal Lopez
76. Heaven grant us patience with a man in love. — Rudyard Kipling
77. Earth is full of heartache and strife, being able to share the journey with somebody you love helps to make it a little easier. — Elijah Davidson
78. Loving is effortless.. while Relationships, they require your time and patience … the two things we all lack. — Sanhita Baruah
79. Never give up on someone you really want. It’s difficult to wait, but it’s more difficult to regret. — Unknown
80. Just wait until the right one comes along, God is going to blow your mind with a love that you never existed. — Unknown
81. Great love can be achieved by patience. — Unknown
82. Perfect love is perfectly patient. — Neal A. Maxwell
83. Patience is the mark of true love. — Eknath Easwaran
84. Patience is the foundation upon which the palace of love is built. — Unknown
85. Love is the poetry of two souls and patience is the ink that writes the poem.  — Unknown
86. I was made and meant to look for you and wait for you and become yours forever. ―Robert Browning
87. A patient heart is like a magnet for true love; it draws kindred souls with its gentle stroke. — Unknown
88. Sometimes it’s not love that dies, but patience that runs out. –– Unknown

89. Love is ever evolving and it takes compromise, work, and patience. — Jessica Alba
90. Give happiness, patience, kindness, and care, and the pain goes away. Only the love remains. — Tsem Tulku Rimpoche
91. Love is not about age or caste or any definite relation; it’s the ability to see the pain in heart through the eyes. Feel it and take a small endeavor to treat it with faith and patience. — Sudeep Prakash Sdk
92. In the silence of waiting, love finds its perfect moment to shine. — Unknown
93. The art of waiting is the art of learning that true love will come. — Unknown
94. Stop waiting for the right person to come into your life. Be the right person to come to someone’s life.  — Leo Babauta
95. Although I don’t like waiting, I’m willing to wait patiently to gain your love for all the years to come. — Unknown
96. For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting. — T. S. Eliot
97. Don’t settle for anyone just to have a someone. Be patient. Have faith and wait for the right one. — Elizabeth Bourgeret
98. It takes patience and endurance to love someone. Patience to overlook the unnecessary and endurance to keep the necessary going. — Unknown
99. Love conquers in the long run. It won’t do to become impatient. Patience is bound to give success.  — Swami Vivekananda
100. The most profound moments in love are born out of the womb of patience, emerging as butterflies of happiness. — Unknown
101. True love is worth waiting for, and patience is the key to its reward. — Unknown
102. Love is always patient and kind; it is never jealous; love is never boastful or conceited; it is never rude or selfish; it does not take offense and is not resentful. — Leo Buscaglia
103. I spent my early 20’s, searching for love without knowing what I was actually in search of―R.H. Sin
104. It takes a little patience and it takes a lot of faith but it’s worth the wait. — Ukhtti
105. To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate. — Al Ghazali
106. True love is meant to last a lifetime. So there is nothing wrong with being patient and making sure you get things right. — Unknown

Quotes About Patience In Relationships

No relationship can grow without patience and loyalty. Go through these relationship patience and relationship loyalty quotes to know more. Each quote captures the essence of love and highlights the crucial role patience plays in nurturing it. Reflect on these words as they provide valuable insights into the nature of true love.

107. In a world of instant gratification, learn the lost art of patience and perseverance. — Unknown
108. Keep patience…. For even TIME needs TIME.― Mayank Sharma
109. Loyalty is smart with patience. — Auliq Ice
110. Patience is the key to a successful relationship. — Unknown
111. Patience is the virtue of an ass that trots beneath his burden, and is quiet. — George Granville
112. Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength. — Charles Caleb Colton
113. He who has infinite patience and infinite energy at his back will alone succeed. — Swami Vivekanand
114. A real relationship has fights, trust, faith, tears, pain, arguments, patience, secret, jealousy and love. — Rahul Singh
115. Relationships are always perfect in our minds, but in the real world, true love requires patience and inner strength. — Unknown
116. A wise man does not try to hurry history. Many wars have been avoided by patience and many have been precipitated by reckless haste. — Adlai Stevenson
117. Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent. — Billy Graham
118. Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience. — George-Louis de Buffon
119. A true relationship is a mosaic of adjustments, compromises, sacrifices, maturity, understanding, commitment, patience, tolerance and unconditional love. — Aarti Khurana
120. For long distance relationships, you should have more patience, more trust and more waiting. — Rose Hobbs
121. All good things arrive unto them that wait – and don’t die in the meantime. — Mark Twain
122. Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day. ― A. A. Milne
123. When you encounter various trials, big or small, be full of joy. They’re opportunities to learn patience. — Scott Curran
124. Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment. — Stephen Covey
125. Sometimes we need not a brilliant mind that speaks but a patient heat that listens. — Irene East
126. We have to recognize that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, and persistence. — Cornel West
127. If you take it step by step, you shall least miss a step. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
128. I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end. ― Margaret Thatcher
129. It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die. Than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience. — Julius Caesar
130. Learning patience can be a difficult experience, but once conquered you will find life is easier. — Catherine Pulsifer
131. When you know that writing your own book of life is so difficult to begin with, the least you can do for someone else, is to try to read the pages of a person rather than skip through the chapters.― Lauren Klarfeld
132. Patience attracts happiness; it brings near that which is far. — Swahili Proverb
133. Patience keeps the relationship healthy, strong and happy. Sometimes, just allowing your partner to be themselves means everything.― Jyoti Patel

134. One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life. — Chinese Proverb
135. “The most compatible couples have great level of patience and tolerance for each other.” — Aarti Khurana
136. One minute of patience, ten years of peace. — Greek proverb
137. Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains. — William Penn
138. Patience is a conquering virtue. ― Geoffrey Chaucer
139. Struggles often serve to release the wisdom, patience, and strength we all possess but too seldom demonstrate. — Jim Stovall
140. A love that is rushed is often fleeting. True love requires patience.
141. Love is not all that is required in a relationship. It needs understanding, openness, kindness, patience and long-suffering.”  — Iyanla Vanzant
142. “Relationships be it dating or marriage, can be viewed as the needle and thread. You cannot sew a fabric with just the needle or the thread. You will need both to get started. It takes patience to thread the needle. The more you learn the technique, the better you will get at it in the future. The same applies to your relationship. Be patient with each other.― Kemi Sogunle
143. Patience is not the ability to wait. Patience is to be calm no matter what happens, constantly take action to turn it to positive growth opportunities, and have faith to believe that it will all work out in the end while you are waiting. — Roy T. Bennett
144. Have patience with all things but first with yourself. Never confuse your mistakes with your value as a human being. You are perfectly valuable, creative, worthwhile person simply because you exist. And no amount of triumphs or tribulations can ever change that. — St. Frances de Sales
145. Patience and passage of time do more than strength and fury. — Jean de la Fontaine
146. At the gate of patience there is no crowding. — Moroccan saying
147. Patience is choosing to control your emotions rather than letting your emotions control you. — Unknown
148. Step ahead immediately and do what you have to do before it’s too late.― Moutasem Algharati
149. Forgive and forget. If there’s anything that I’ve learnt this far, it’s to forgive people. — Balqis Diyar Harraz
150. Patience is only possible within the time we are able to be patient.― Auliq Ice
151. Patience is the blue vitriol to control the fungal emotions of life.―Munia Khan
152. The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.― Leo Tolstoy
153. The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.— Solomon Ibn Gabirol
154. Trees that are slow to grow to bear the best fruit. ― Molière
155. When it comes to increase motivation and self-control, you have to remain patient and allow your mind to adapt to the new changes.  — Jill Hesson
156. Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success. — Napoleon Hill
157. We can never skip growing old. As we grow older, we understand old things and things of old times better. . — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
158. Attract people to you because you are kind, patient, and understanding.― Germany Kent
159. You can’t rush something you want to last forever. — Unknown
160. Good relationships don’t just happen. They take time, patience and two people who truly want to be together. — Unknown
161. The time isn’t always right, but eventually destiny steps in. All you need is patience. — Unknown
162. Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. — Victor Hugo
163. Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything. — Rainer Maria Rilke
164. Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character. — Heraclitus
165. You have to have a patience for relationships. Once the momentum gets going it takes on a life all of its own. — Simon Sinek
166. Mutual caring relationships require kindness and patience, tolerance, optimism, joy in the other’s achievements, confidence in oneself, and the ability to give without undue thought of gain. — Fred Rogers
167. If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm. — Mahatma Gandhi
168. Indeed, this life is a test. It is a test of many things – of our convictions and priorities, our faith and our faithfulness, our patience and our resilience, and in the end, our ultimate desires. — Sheri L. Dew
169. Patience is the best remedy for every trouble. — Plautus
170. Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in your mind. — David G. Allen
171. Patience teaches us to turn provocations into invocations, to transform frustrations into celebrations. — William Arthur Ward
172. Only bad things happen quickly … Virtually all the happiness-producing processes in our lives take time, usually a long time: learning new things, changing old behaviors, building satisfying relationships, raising children. This is why patience and determination are among life’s primary virtues. — Gordon Livingston
173. Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. — John Quincy Adams
174. It is very strange…that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting. — Elizabeth Taylor
175. The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter. — Paulo Coelho
176. Love is patient. This type of patience is not waiting for your wife while she shops in the store. This type of patience lasts a lifetime. — Unknown
177. When you are tempted to lose patience with someone, think about how patient God has been with you.— Unknown
178. Patience is not about waiting, but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting. — Unknown
179. Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious. — Phillips Brooks
180. Patience is a key element of success. — Bill Gates
181. Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
182. Patience is not passive, on the contrary, it is concentrated strength.  — Bruce Lee
183. Patience is the key to contentment. — The Prophet Muhammad
184. The longer you wait for something, the more you appreciate it when you get it. Because anything worth having is definitely something worth waiting. — Unknown
185. Patience is not about how long someone can wait. It’s about how well they behave while they wait. — Unknown
186. Mutual caring relationships require kindness and patience, tolerance, optimism and joy in the other’s achievements, confidence in oneself, and the ability to give without undue thought of gain. — Fred Rogers
187. Relationship builds with love and care but grows with patience and understanding. — K. Parikshit Shetty
188. To lose patience is to lose the battle. — Mahatma Gandhi
189. Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit. — Molière
190. We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world. — Helen Keller
191. You usually have to wait for that which is worth waiting for. – Craig Bruce

192. A real relationship has pain and patience. — Unknown
193. In a good relationship, it is a must to forgive, have patience and expect the best from our partner.  — Rudi Zimmerer
194. Compromise and patience is the strongest base of an understanding relationship. — Adwait Pillai
195. Relationship demands patience and trust. — Anu
196. Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. — Hal Borland
197. A moment of patience in a moment of anger saves a thousand moments of regret. ― Ali Ibn Abu Talib
198. Patience can’t be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it. — Eknath Easwaran
199. A strong relationship is like a house built with bricks where every brick represents a moment of patience. — Unknown
200. A patient heart overshadows flaws and visualizes the potential of growth in a relationship. — Unknown
201. Patience is a glue that mends the cracks in a relationship, fixing it and making it stronger than before.— Unknown
202. Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work. ― Peter Marshall
203. I worked with patience which means almost power. ― Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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