81 Movie Quotes about Patience (+ Sound Clips) - page 6

Updated: Sep 3, 2025

Memorable quotes about patience, selected from famous or less known movies and other sources by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

51 Watch like the hawk, be patient as the beaver, brave as puma, that he may learn well.

Quote from Hondo (1953)

52 It took me a long, long time to learn my elbow from a hot rock.

Quote from The Magnificent Seven (1960)

53 I'm glad I finally made it. Just goes to show it only needs patience.

Quote from Savage Killers

54 Patience? My time is short.

Richard Burton as Alexander The Great in Alexander the Great (1956)

55 During the past year, I've given you all sorts of menial tasks. That's because I wanted to test your patience, and toughen you up physically. That's the first step in training for the Iron Fist.

Quote from Five Fingers of Death

56 Been waiting long? -It's not how long you wait. It's who you're waiting for.

Tony Curtis as Joe in Some Like It Hot

57 Your Kung-Fu still needs improving. Don't rush it.

Quote from Shaolin Temple Strikes Back (1981)

58 Hey. Roosters have to crow at dawn. Suppose we wait and see who crows.

Quote from Foghorn Leghorn Shorts

59 Well, you know, crowns are sometimes lost by smiles and dimples. -And so is patience. -Yours?

Quote from The Ten Commandments (1956)

60 I thought I might improve my mind, while I waited. -Boswell's Life of Johnson? Surely you didn't expect to wait that long? -I was just going to look at the pictures.

Quote from The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)