Motivational Quotes

Patience

Patience is passion tamed.

- Abbott, Lyman

Best Quotes about Patience

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

Bacon, Francis

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

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

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Victor Hugo

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. 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.

Leonardo da Vinci

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

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

William Shakespeare

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

Granville, George

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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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Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Franz Kafka

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

William Shakespeare

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Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

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Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Patience is counting down without blasting off

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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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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Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

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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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The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

Epictetus

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

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The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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I do oppose my patience to his fury, and am arm'd to suffer with a quietness of spirit, the very tyranny and rage of his.

William Shakespeare

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Patience is sottish, and impatience does become a dog that's mad.