Motivational Quotes

Patience

Patience means self-suffering.

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Patience

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

William Shakespeare

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

Prescott, W. B.

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

Margaret Thatcher

Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

You will conquer by patience.

Motto

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.

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

Faulkner, William

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

William Shakespeare

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Massinger, Philip

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Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

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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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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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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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

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

Perera, George

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

William Shakespeare

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

Franz Kafka

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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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Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

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

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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If you are tempted to lose patience with your fellowman; stop and think how patient God has been with you.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Johnson, Barbara

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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

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

William Shakespeare

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Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Carrey, Jim

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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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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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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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

Isaac Newton

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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 be powerless to vex your mind.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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

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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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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.