Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Carrey, Jim

Best Quotes about Patience

1.

Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

2.

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.

3.

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

William Shakespeare

4.

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

Margaret Thatcher

5.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

6.

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

Carrey, Jim

7.

Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.

Chesterfield, Lord

8.

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

Mcglashen, Bill

9.

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

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

12.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

13.

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

14.

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

Arnold, Matthew

15.

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

Bacon, Francis

16.

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.

17.

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

George Jackson

18.

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

Forbes, B. C.

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.

Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

21.

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

Bushnell, Horace

22.

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

Kafka, Franz

23.

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

24.

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

Shakespeare, William

25.

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

26.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

27.

Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

28.

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

Roux, Joseph

29.

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

William Shakespeare

30.

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

31.

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

Johnson, Barbara

32.

Like farmers we need to learn that we cannot sow and reap the same day.

33.

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

34.

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

Helen Keller

35.

Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

36.

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

Granville, George

37.

A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

38.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

39.

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

Saying, Traditional

40.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

41.

You will conquer by patience.

Motto

42.

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.

43.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.

Isaac Newton

44.

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

45.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

46.

Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

47.

Those who desire to become rich, desire it at once.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

48.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

49.

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

50.

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder