Motivational Quotes

Patience

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.

Best Quotes about Patience

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

Forbes, B. C.

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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

Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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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 a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

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

William Shakespeare

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Patience. A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Franz Kafka

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

Elizabeth Taylor

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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.

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

Saying, Traditional

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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

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Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

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

Mcglashen, Bill

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Sometimes it helps to know that I just can't do it all. One step at a time is all that's possible -- even when those steps are taken on the run.

Schaef, Anne W.

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

William Shakespeare

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Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Voltaire

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

Saadi

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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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Be patient. The path of self-discipline that leads to God-realization is not an easy path: obstacles and sufferings are on the path; the latter you must bear, and the former overcome -- all by His help. His help comes only through concentration. Repetition of God's name helps concentration.

Ramdas, Swami

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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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Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

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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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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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Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

William Shakespeare

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