Motivational Quotes

Patience

It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.

- Cobbett, William

Best Quotes about Patience

Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

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

William Shakespeare

Patience carries a lot of wait

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Prescott, W. B.

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.

You will conquer by patience.

Motto

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

Epictetus

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

William Shakespeare

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Bhagavad Gita

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Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

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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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Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in one ahead.

Mcglashen, Bill

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Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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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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Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

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

Carrey, Jim

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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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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 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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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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With close-lipped Patience for our only friend, Sad Patience, too near neighbor to Despair.

Arnold, Matthew

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

Franz Kafka

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Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.