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.

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

Faulkner, William

2.

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

George Jackson

3.

Like farmers we need to learn that we cannot sow and reap the same day.

4.

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

5.

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

Johnson, Barbara

6.

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

7.

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

8.

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

9.

It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.

Cobbett, William

10.

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

11.

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

12.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

13.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

14.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

15.

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

16.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

17.

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.

18.

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

William Shakespeare

19.

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

20.

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

Proverb, Chinese

21.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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.

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

24.

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

Granville, George

25.

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

Prescott, W. B.

26.

Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

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

28.

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

Helen Keller

29.

Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

30.

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

William Shakespeare

31.

Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

32.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

33.

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

Forbes, B. C.

34.

Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

35.

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

36.

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

Voltaire

37.

A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

38.

Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

39.

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.

40.

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

Perera, George

41.

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

42.

Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

43.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

44.

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

William Shakespeare

45.

Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

46.

You will conquer by patience.

Motto

47.

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

Massinger, Philip

48.

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 be powerless to vex your mind.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

49.

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

50.

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

Mcglashen, Bill