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

Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

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.

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

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

Saadi

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

Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

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

Massinger, Philip

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

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Patience is counting down without blasting off

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

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Patience carries a lot of wait

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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 means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Elizabeth Taylor

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

Franz Kafka

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

William Shakespeare

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

George Jackson

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

Shakespeare, William

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Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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

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You will conquer by patience.

Motto

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Roux, Joseph

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Carrey, Jim

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Patience is passion tamed.