Motivational Quotes

Patience

Patience is passion tamed.

- Abbott, Lyman

Best Quotes about Patience

Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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

George Jackson

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

Work and wait, work and wait is what God says to us in creation.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

There will be a time when loud-mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self destruct. It never fails.

Richard Rybolt

All things come to him who waits -- provided he knows what he is waiting for.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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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.

Brian Adams

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow -- that is patience.

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

Isaac Newton

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Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

Forbes, B. C.

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Had it pleas'd heaven to try me with affliction... I should have found in some place of my soul a drop of patience.

William Shakespeare

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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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A high hope for a low heaven: God grant us patience!

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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

Mcglashen, Bill

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.

Einstein, Albert

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To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success.

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Arnold, Matthew

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Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

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

William Shakespeare

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

Massinger, Philip

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Let this be understood, then, at starting; that the patient conquest of difficulties which rise in the regular and legitimate channels of business and enterprise is not only essential in securing the success which you seek but it is essential to that preparation of your mind, requisite for the enjoyment of your successes, and for retaining them when gained. So, day by day, and week by week; so month after month, and year after year, work on, and in that process gain strength and symmetry, and nerve and knowledge, that when success, patiently and bravely worked for, shall come, it may find you prepared to receive it and keep it,

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Kafka, Franz

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

William Shakespeare

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them -- every day begin the task anew -

Francis De Sales, St.

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Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Saying, Traditional

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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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Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bacon, Francis

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Patience is power; with time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.