Motivational Quotes

Patience

Patience will achieve more than force.

- Burke, Edmund

Best Quotes about Patience

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

Johnson, Barbara

Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Perera, George

Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

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.

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

Margaret Thatcher

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Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

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

Prescott, W. B.

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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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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Patience is not active; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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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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Patience carries a lot of wait

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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 support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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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Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Mcglashen, Bill

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

Franz Kafka

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

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

Epictetus

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

Bhagavad Gita

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