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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Bacon, Francis

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

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

Granville, George

A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

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

William Shakespeare

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

Helen Keller

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

Saadi

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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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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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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.

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

Carrey, Jim

16.

Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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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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

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

24.

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.

25.

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

Johnson, Barbara

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

Kafka, Franz

28.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

29.

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

30.

Patience is counting down without blasting off

31.

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

Faulkner, William

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

33.

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

Mcglashen, Bill

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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 and the passage of time do more than strength and fury.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Perera, George

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

Saying, Traditional

44.

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 carries a lot of wait

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

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

George Jackson