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

Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

Patience is not active; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

I do oppose my patience to his fury, and am arm'd to suffer with a quietness of spirit, the very tyranny and rage of his.

William Shakespeare

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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.

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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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.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Roux, Joseph

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Little by little, through patience and repeated effort, the mind will become stilled in the Self.

Bhagavad Gita

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Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

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Patience carries a lot of wait

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

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

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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 then be powerless to vex your mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

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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. A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.

Bierce, Ambrose

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A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

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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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Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

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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

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Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

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

William Shakespeare

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

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

Carrey, Jim

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Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

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Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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 will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

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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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Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo