Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Carrey, Jim

Best Quotes about Patience

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

Franz Kafka

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

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

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

Margaret Thatcher

Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

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

Voltaire

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

William Shakespeare

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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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You will conquer by patience.

Motto

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

Isaac Newton

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.

Faulkner, William

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Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Massinger, Philip

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

Roux, Joseph

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

Mcglashen, Bill

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

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Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

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Patience carries a lot of wait

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Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

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Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

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Patience is counting down without blasting off

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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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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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Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

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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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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