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

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

Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

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

Kafka, Franz

Patience is counting down without blasting off

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Saadi

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

William Shakespeare

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

Perera, George

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

Massinger, Philip

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

Saying, Traditional

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

William Shakespeare

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

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

William Shakespeare

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Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Franz Kafka

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

Helen Keller

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Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Carrey, Jim

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Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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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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

49.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish