Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Granville, George

Best Quotes about Patience

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.

Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

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

William Shakespeare

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.

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

Faulkner, William

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

Epictetus

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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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Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big.

Hesiod

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

William Shakespeare

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

Voltaire

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

Prescott, W. B.

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

Bacon, Francis

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A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

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Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

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

Margaret Thatcher

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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 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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Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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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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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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Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

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

Carrey, Jim

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

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

George Jackson

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Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

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Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

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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.