Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

Best Quotes about Patience

Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

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

George Jackson

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

William Shakespeare

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Faulkner, William

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.

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

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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 is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

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

William Shakespeare

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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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A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

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

Voltaire

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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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Brian Adams

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Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Helen Keller

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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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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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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 will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

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Patience is counting down without blasting off

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Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

31.

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

Bushnell, Horace

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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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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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You will conquer by patience.

Motto

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Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

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

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

Margaret Thatcher

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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

Kafka, Franz

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

43.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Saadi

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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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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