Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Chesterfield, Lord

Best Quotes about Patience

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

Isaac Newton

Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

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

Massinger, Philip

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Patience is counting down without blasting off

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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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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

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The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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You will conquer by patience.

Motto

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

19.

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, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

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

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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

Franz Kafka

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

Carrey, Jim

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

William Shakespeare

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A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

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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 then be powerless to vex your mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Granville, George

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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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Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

George Jackson

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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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Little by little, through patience and repeated effort, the mind will become stilled in the Self.

Bhagavad Gita

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Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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