Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Bhagavad Gita

Best Quotes about Patience

Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

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

Hesiod

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

William Shakespeare

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

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

Isaac Newton

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

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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

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If you are tempted to lose patience with your fellowman; stop and think how patient God has been with you.

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

Prescott, W. B.

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

George Jackson

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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. A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

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The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

Epictetus

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

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

Faulkner, William

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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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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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

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

Massinger, Philip

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

William Shakespeare

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

Carrey, Jim

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Patience carries a lot of wait

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

William Shakespeare

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Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

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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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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

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

William Shakespeare