Motivational Quotes

Patience

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.

Best Quotes about Patience

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

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

George Jackson

Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

Like farmers we need to learn that we cannot sow and reap the same day.

A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

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

William Shakespeare

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

Cobbett, William

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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 is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Roux, Joseph

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

Bhagavad Gita

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Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Isaac Newton

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

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Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Saadi

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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.

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

40.

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.

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Patience is counting down without blasting off

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

Saying, Traditional

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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 is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

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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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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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Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

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

Margaret Thatcher