Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Patience

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

William Shakespeare

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bushnell, Horace

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big.

Hesiod

Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

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Had it pleas'd heaven to try me with affliction... I should have found in some place of my soul a drop of patience.

William Shakespeare

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Patience is counting down without blasting off

16.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Arnold, Matthew

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Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

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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

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Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Voltaire

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

Carrey, Jim

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

William Shakespeare

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

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

Johnson, Barbara

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You will conquer by patience.

Motto

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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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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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A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

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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 be powerless to vex your mind.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Mcglashen, Bill

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

Granville, George

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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

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