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

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

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.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Franz Kafka

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

11.

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

Massinger, Philip

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Saying, Traditional

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Patience. A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

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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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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.

George Jackson

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Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Granville, George

25.

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

William Shakespeare

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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Prescott, W. B.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Forbes, B. C.

43.

Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

44.

Patience carries a lot of wait

45.

Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

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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 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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Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

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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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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