Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Bushnell, Horace

Best Quotes about Patience

Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

Patience and the passage of time do more than strength and fury.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Arnold, Matthew

Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

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

William Shakespeare

Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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 passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Epictetus

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

Perera, George

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

Prescott, W. B.

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

William Shakespeare

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Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

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

Margaret Thatcher

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Granville, George

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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, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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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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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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Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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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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.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Hesiod

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Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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