Motivational Quotes

Patience

Patience means self-suffering.

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Patience

1.

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

Faulkner, William

2.

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

3.

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

Proverb, Spanish

4.

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

5.

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

6.

Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.

Chesterfield, Lord

7.

Patience carries a lot of wait

8.

Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

9.

Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

10.

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

11.

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

Saying, Traditional

12.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

William Shakespeare

17.

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

Proverb, Chinese

18.

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

Prescott, W. B.

19.

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

20.

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

Epictetus

21.

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

Granville, George

22.

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

23.

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

George Jackson

24.

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

25.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

26.

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.

27.

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

Shakespeare, William

28.

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

William Shakespeare

29.

Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

30.

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

Perera, George

31.

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

Franz Kafka

32.

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

Helen Keller

33.

Patience is counting down without blasting off

34.

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

Forbes, B. C.

35.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

36.

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

37.

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

Carrey, Jim

38.

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

Margaret Thatcher

39.

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

Mcglashen, Bill

40.

A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

41.

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

Saadi

42.

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

William Shakespeare

43.

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

44.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

45.

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

Bacon, Francis

46.

Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

47.

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.

48.

Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

49.

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

50.

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

Kafka, Franz