Motivational Quotes

Patience

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

- Edmund Burke

Best Quotes about 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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

All things come to him who waits -- provided he knows what he is waiting for.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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.

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

Helen Keller

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

Elizabeth Taylor

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

William Shakespeare

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

Epictetus

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There will be a time when loud-mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self destruct. It never fails.

Richard Rybolt

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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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Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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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Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Franz Kafka

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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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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Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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 means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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 ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

Johnson, Barbara

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

Massinger, Philip

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Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

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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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A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

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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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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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