Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Franz Kafka

Best Quotes about Patience

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

Margaret Thatcher

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach-waiting for a gift from the sea.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

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.

Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Isaac Newton

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

William Shakespeare

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.

Patience is counting down without blasting off

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Proverb, Spanish

12.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

19.

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

Massinger, Philip

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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 passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Carrey, Jim

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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

25.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Arnold, Matthew

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

Saadi

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

William Shakespeare

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

Prescott, W. B.

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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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A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

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Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

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

William Shakespeare

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Patience carries a lot of wait

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

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

William Shakespeare

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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