Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Franz Kafka

Best Quotes about Patience

Patience carries a lot of wait

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.

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

William Shakespeare

Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Massinger, Philip

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

William Shakespeare

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

Margaret Thatcher

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

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

George Jackson

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

William Shakespeare

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

Saying, Traditional

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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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A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Bushnell, Horace

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Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Patience is counting down without blasting off

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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

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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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Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Voltaire

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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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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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

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

William Shakespeare

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Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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Patience in the present, faith in the future, and joy in the doing

Perera, George

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

William Shakespeare

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Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.

Brian Adams