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

Patience is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not.

Granville, George

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.

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

Bacon, Francis

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

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

Epictetus

Patience carries a lot of wait

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

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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A high hope for a low heaven: God grant us patience!

William Shakespeare

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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

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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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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 is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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You will conquer by patience.

Motto

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Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

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Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

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

Saying, Traditional

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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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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

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Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

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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 is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Margaret Thatcher

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

Faulkner, William

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

Prescott, W. B.

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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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Patience. A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

George Jackson

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

William Shakespeare