Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Arnold, Matthew

Best Quotes about Patience

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

Franz Kafka

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

You will conquer by patience.

Motto

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Elizabeth Taylor

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

William Shakespeare

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Patience is counting down without blasting off

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Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Saadi

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

William Shakespeare

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

Roux, Joseph

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Margaret Thatcher

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

William Shakespeare

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Prescott, W. B.

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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

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If I'm not back in five minutes... just wait longer!

Carrey, Jim

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Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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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 ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

Johnson, Barbara

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Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.