Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Elizabeth Taylor

Best Quotes about Patience

Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

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

Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Granville, George

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

Epictetus

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

Proverb, Spanish

Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Bierce, Ambrose

11.

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

Massinger, Philip

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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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Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.

Saadi

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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 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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Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

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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

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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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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

William Shakespeare

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

Saying, Traditional

28.

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Let this be understood, then, at starting; that the patient conquest of difficulties which rise in the regular and legitimate channels of business and enterprise is not only essential in securing the success which you seek but it is essential to that preparation of your mind, requisite for the enjoyment of your successes, and for retaining them when gained. So, day by day, and week by week; so month after month, and year after year, work on, and in that process gain strength and symmetry, and nerve and knowledge, that when success, patiently and bravely worked for, shall come, it may find you prepared to receive it and keep it,

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Bacon, Francis

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Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow -- that is patience.

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

Margaret Thatcher

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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