Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.

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 serves us against insults precisely as clothes do against the cold. For if you multiply your garments as the cold increases, that cold cannot hurt you; in the same way increase your patience under great offenses, and they cannot hurt your feelings.

A very little thief of occasion will rob you of a great deal of patience.

I'll tell you what leadership is. It's persuasion and conciliation, and education, and patience.

He who has infinite patience and infinite energy at his back, will alone succeed.