Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- George Jackson

Best Quotes about Patience

Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

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

Isaac Newton

Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Saying, Traditional

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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

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

Prescott, W. B.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

George Jackson

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

Franz Kafka

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Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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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.

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

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Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

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Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

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

William Shakespeare

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

Saadi

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

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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.

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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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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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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 the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Roux, Joseph

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

Shakespeare, William

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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

William Shakespeare

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

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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

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

Granville, George

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If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big.

Hesiod

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