Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Arnold, Matthew

Best Quotes about Patience

1.

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

2.

Let me look upward into the branches of the flowering oak and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

3.

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

Bhagavad Gita

4.

Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

5.

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

6.

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

7.

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

George Jackson

8.

You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.

Stanislaw J. Lec

9.

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

10.

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

Faulkner, William

11.

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

Saadi

12.

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

William Shakespeare

13.

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

14.

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

Bacon, Francis

15.

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

Prescott, W. B.

16.

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

Proverb, Chinese

17.

Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

18.

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

Kafka, Franz

19.

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

William Shakespeare

20.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

21.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

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

Bushnell, Horace

23.

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

24.

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; she requires the hand of time.

Voltaire

25.

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

26.

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

Proverb, Spanish

27.

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

Granville, George

28.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

29.

Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

30.

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

William Shakespeare

31.

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

Perera, George

32.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

33.

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

Massinger, Philip

34.

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

35.

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

Forbes, B. C.

36.

Patience carries a lot of wait

37.

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

38.

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

Mcglashen, Bill

39.

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

40.

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

Isaac Newton

41.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

42.

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

William Shakespeare

43.

Patience is counting down without blasting off