Motivational Quotes

Patience

Patience is passion tamed.

- Abbott, Lyman

Best Quotes about Patience

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

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

William Shakespeare

In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.

Prescott, W. B.

Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Margaret Thatcher

10.

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

11.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

13.

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

14.

Patience carries a lot of wait

15.

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

Bhagavad Gita

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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

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.

Bushnell, Horace

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Da Vinci, Leonardo

21.

Patience is counting down without blasting off

22.

Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.

Saadi

23.

Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

24.

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

William Shakespeare

25.

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

William Shakespeare

26.

You will conquer by patience.

Motto

27.

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

Helen Keller

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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

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

30.

Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

31.

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

Shakespeare, William

32.

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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Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

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

Forbes, B. C.

35.

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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Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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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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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

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Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

44.

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

45.

In all evils which admits a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes the time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might remove the cause.

Johnson, Samuel

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Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

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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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Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

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Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

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It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

Elizabeth Taylor