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

1.

Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

2.

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

3.

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

William Shakespeare

4.

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

Prescott, W. B.

5.

Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

6.

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

William Shakespeare

7.

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

8.

You will conquer by patience.

Motto

9.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

10.

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

11.

Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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

Proverb, Chinese

13.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

14.

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

Granville, George

15.

Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

16.

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

Massinger, Philip

17.

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

18.

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

19.

It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

Elizabeth Taylor

20.

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

Saying, Traditional

21.

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.

22.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

23.

Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

24.

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

George Jackson

25.

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

Forbes, B. C.

26.

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

Margaret Thatcher

27.

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

28.

Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

29.

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

Bushnell, Horace

30.

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

31.

Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

32.

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

33.

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

34.

Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

35.

The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

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

William Shakespeare

37.

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

38.

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

Johnson, Barbara

39.

Patience is counting down without blasting off

40.

Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

41.

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

Bacon, Francis

42.

Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow -- that is patience.

43.

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

Voltaire

44.

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

William Shakespeare

45.

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

Mcglashen, Bill

46.

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.

47.

Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

48.

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

Epictetus

49.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

50.

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