Motivational Quotes

Patience

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

- Brown, Jerry

Best Quotes about Patience

All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.

Kafka, Franz

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

Bacon, Francis

Patience and the passage of time do more than strength and fury.

La Fontaine, Jean De

Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

The patience of the hunter is always greater than that of the prey.

Saying, Traditional

Dios tarda pero no olvida -- God delays but doesn't forget.

Proverb, Spanish

Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

Those who desire to become rich, desire it at once.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Be patient. The path of self-discipline that leads to God-realization is not an easy path: obstacles and sufferings are on the path; the latter you must bear, and the former overcome -- all by His help. His help comes only through concentration. Repetition of God's name helps concentration.

Ramdas, Swami

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I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

Margaret Thatcher

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Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.

Chesterfield, Lord

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Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.

Massinger, Philip

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The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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Consider the hour-glass; there is nothing to be accomplished by rattling or shaking; you have to wait patiently until the sand, grain by grain, has run from one funnel into the other.

Morgenstern, John Christian

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Patience in the present, faith in the future, and joy in the doing

Perera, George

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Patience is not active; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

18.

How poor are they that have not patience. What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

Shakespeare, William

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Patience is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not.

Granville, George

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We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

Helen Keller

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Patience. A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Sometimes it helps to know that I just can't do it all. One step at a time is all that's possible -- even when those steps are taken on the run.

Schaef, Anne W.

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Every man must patiently bide his time. He must wait -- not in listless idleness but in constant, steady, cheerful endeavors, always willing and fulfilling and accomplishing his task, that when the occasion comes he may be equal to the occasion.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

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The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach-waiting for a gift from the sea.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Of all the things that tax a man's patience, there's nothing to compare with a stuck zipper.

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It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.

Cobbett, William

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Little by little, through patience and repeated effort, the mind will become stilled in the Self.

Bhagavad Gita

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Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in one ahead.

Mcglashen, Bill

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Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

31.

Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.

Auden, W. H.

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If you are tempted to lose patience with your fellowman; stop and think how patient God has been with you.

33.

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

Roux, Joseph

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Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

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Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

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Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Epictetus

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How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

William Shakespeare

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Patience permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord when we are tossed about by suffering as if by surf. When the undertow grasps us we will realize that we are somehow being carried forward even as we tumble. We are actually being -helped even as we cry for help.

Maxwell, Neal A.

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Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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Patience carries a lot of wait

41.

Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper sprinkle cool patience.

William Shakespeare

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Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice.

Jackson, George Holbrook

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If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.

Franz Kafka

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Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

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With close-lipped Patience for our only friend, Sad Patience, too near neighbor to Despair.

Arnold, Matthew

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I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

Chaplin, Charlie

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If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big.

Hesiod

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Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.

Thatcher, Margaret