Motivational Quotes

Patience

Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Patience

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

Let me look upward into the branches of the flowering oak and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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

Isaac Newton

Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

William Shakespeare

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

Voltaire

10.

The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

12.

Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

13.

Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

14.

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

15.

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

Proverb, Chinese

16.

It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.

Bushnell, Horace

17.

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

18.

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

Bhagavad Gita

19.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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.

21.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

George Jackson

23.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

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Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

25.

Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

26.

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

Proverb, Spanish

27.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

28.

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

Bacon, Francis

29.

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

Faulkner, William

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

Forbes, B. C.

31.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

33.

All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.

Kafka, Franz

34.

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

Prescott, W. B.

35.

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

Granville, George

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

William Shakespeare

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

Arnold, Matthew

42.

Of all the things that tax a man's patience, there's nothing to compare with a stuck zipper.

43.

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Patience is counting down without blasting off

45.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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

48.

You will conquer by patience.

Motto

49.

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

William Shakespeare