Motivational Quotes

Patience

Patience means self-suffering.

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Patience

1.

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

William Shakespeare

2.

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

William Shakespeare

3.

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

4.

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

5.

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

William Shakespeare

6.

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

7.

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

8.

Patience is counting down without blasting off

9.

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

Franz Kafka

10.

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

Kafka, Franz

11.

Of all the things that tax a man's patience, there's nothing to compare with a stuck zipper.

12.

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

Epictetus

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

16.

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.

17.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

18.

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.

19.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

20.

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

William Shakespeare

21.

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

Roux, Joseph

22.

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

Bacon, Francis

23.

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

Granville, George

24.

Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

25.

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

George Jackson

26.

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

27.

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

Cobbett, William

28.

Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

29.

Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

30.

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

Perera, George

31.

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

Faulkner, William

32.

It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

Elizabeth Taylor

33.

Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

34.

Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

35.

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

William Shakespeare

36.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

37.

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

Prescott, W. B.

38.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

39.

Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

40.

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

Shakespeare, William

41.

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

42.

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

Mcglashen, Bill

43.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

44.

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

45.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

46.

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

47.

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

Saadi

48.

The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

49.

Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

50.

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