Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

Best Quotes about Patience

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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.

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

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

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

Elizabeth Taylor

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.

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

Roux, Joseph

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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 counting down without blasting off

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

Margaret Thatcher

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

Voltaire

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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 who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees.

William Shakespeare

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

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

Perera, George

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

George Jackson

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

Prescott, W. B.

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

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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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 when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

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

William Shakespeare

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Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

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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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Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Massinger, Philip

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Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

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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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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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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

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

William Shakespeare

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Chaplin, Charlie

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Forbes, B. C.