Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Patience

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Perera, George

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

Every man must patiently bide his time. He must wait -- not in listless idleness but in constant, steady, cheerful endeavors, always willing and fulfilling and accomplishing his task, that when the occasion comes he may be equal to the occasion.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Patience carries a lot of wait

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

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

Margaret Thatcher

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Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

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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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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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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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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

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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 will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Carrey, Jim

24.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

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

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Massinger, Philip

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

Franz Kafka

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Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Perfection is attained by slow degrees; she requires the hand of time.

Voltaire

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Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

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

George Jackson

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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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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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You will conquer by patience.

Motto

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

Bacon, Francis

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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