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

1.

Every man must patiently bide his time. He must wait -- not in listless idleness but in constant, steady, cheerful endeavors, always willing and fulfilling and accomplishing his task, that when the occasion comes he may be equal to the occasion.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

2.

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

3.

Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

4.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in one ahead.

Mcglashen, Bill

5.

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

6.

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

7.

Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

8.

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

9.

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

Voltaire

10.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

11.

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.

12.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

13.

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

14.

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

Faulkner, William

15.

Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

16.

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.

17.

If I'm not back in five minutes... just wait longer!

Carrey, Jim

18.

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

19.

A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

20.

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

William Shakespeare

21.

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

22.

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

William Shakespeare

23.

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

William Shakespeare

24.

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

Shakespeare, William

25.

Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

26.

You will conquer by patience.

Motto

27.

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

Helen Keller

28.

Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

29.

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

Johnson, Barbara

30.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

31.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

32.

Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

33.

Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

34.

Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper sprinkle cool patience.

William Shakespeare

35.

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

36.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

37.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

38.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

39.

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

Cobbett, William

40.

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

Bhagavad Gita

41.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

42.

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

43.

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.

44.

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

45.

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.

46.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

47.

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.