Fortune knocks but once but misfortune has much more patience.
If you would know strength and patience welcome the company of trees.
Patience is the support of weakness impatience the ruin of strength.
Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.
All commend patience but none can endure to suffer.
As for goals I don't set myself those anymore. I'm not one of these 'I must have achieved this and that by next year' kind of writers. I take things as they come and find that patience and persistence tend to win out in the end.
Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.
Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
Humility is attentive patience.
Patience has its limits. Take it too far and it's cowardice.