Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

Best Quotes about Patience

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

George Jackson

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

Isaac Newton

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

Prescott, W. B.

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

Patience carries a lot of wait

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Patience and the passage of time do more than strength and fury.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

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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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Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Massinger, Philip

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

Forbes, B. C.

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Perfection is attained by slow degrees; she requires the hand of time.

Voltaire

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

Franz Kafka

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Roux, Joseph

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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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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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Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

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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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Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

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

Epictetus

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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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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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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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Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

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

Margaret Thatcher

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

Faulkner, William

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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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Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.