Patience

Patience is the ability to endure waiting, delay, or provocation without becoming annoyed or upset, or to persevere calmly when faced with difficulties.

Impatience is an opposite of patience.
 

Quotes

The years teach what the days never know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful. Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.
Mary Antin

I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process.
Thomas Edison, responding to a reporter who asked how it felt to fail 2000 times before successfully inventing the light bulb

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
Soren Kierkegaard

Peaceful warriors have the patience to wait until the mud settles and the water clears. They remain unmoving until the right time, so the right action arises by itself. They do not seek fulfillment, but wait with open arms to welcome all things.
Dan Millman