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

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

Perera, George

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Franz Kafka

Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Isaac Newton

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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 then be powerless to vex your mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

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Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Shakespeare, William

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Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

14.

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

Prescott, W. B.

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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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Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

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Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mcglashen, Bill

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

22.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

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

George Jackson

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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Helen Keller

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Patience carries a lot of wait

28.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

William Shakespeare

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

Carrey, Jim

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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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Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

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Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

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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

37.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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You will conquer by patience.

Motto

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

William Shakespeare

40.

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

William Shakespeare

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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 means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

William Shakespeare

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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.

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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 the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder