Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Glasgow, Arnold H.

Best Quotes about Patience

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Patience carries a lot of wait

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

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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Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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Patience is counting down without blasting off

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

Perera, George

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

Proverb, Chinese

14.

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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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

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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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Had it pleas'd heaven to try me with affliction... I should have found in some place of my soul a drop of patience.

William Shakespeare

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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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Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

21.

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

22.

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 patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

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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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Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

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

Helen Keller

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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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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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With close-lipped Patience for our only friend, Sad Patience, too near neighbor to Despair.

Arnold, Matthew

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Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

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

Saying, Traditional

40.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Carrey, Jim

42.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Massinger, Philip

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Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

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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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Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Epictetus

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

Faulkner, William

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

William Shakespeare

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Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus