Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Carrey, Jim

Best Quotes about Patience

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

Mcglashen, Bill

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

William Shakespeare

Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

Patience carries a lot of wait

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

George Jackson

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

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Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

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

Perera, George

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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Johnson, Barbara

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It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.

Cobbett, William

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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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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

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

Roux, Joseph

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

Prescott, W. B.

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Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

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

Saadi

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Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

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Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

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

Carrey, Jim

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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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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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Arnold, Matthew

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Isaac Newton

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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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Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

William Shakespeare

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

Voltaire

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

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Be patient. The path of self-discipline that leads to God-realization is not an easy path: obstacles and sufferings are on the path; the latter you must bear, and the former overcome -- all by His help. His help comes only through concentration. Repetition of God's name helps concentration.

Ramdas, Swami

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

Faulkner, William