Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Carrey, Jim

Best Quotes about Patience

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

If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big.

Hesiod

Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Franz Kafka

A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

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

Elizabeth Taylor

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Prescott, W. B.

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

Saadi

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

Margaret Thatcher

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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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Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

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

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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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Of all the things that tax a man's patience, there's nothing to compare with a stuck zipper.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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

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

Perera, George

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

27.

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

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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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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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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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You will conquer by patience.

Motto

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Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

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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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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

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

Carrey, Jim

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

Voltaire

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

George Jackson

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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.

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Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

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Patience carries a lot of wait

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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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If you are tempted to lose patience with your fellowman; stop and think how patient God has been with you.

47.

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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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

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Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi