Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Helen Keller

Best Quotes about Patience

It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.

Cobbett, William

If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.

Newton, Sir Isaac

You will conquer by patience.

Motto

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

George Jackson

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

Perera, George

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

Faulkner, William

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

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 when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

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

Saadi

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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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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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With close-lipped Patience for our only friend, Sad Patience, too near neighbor to Despair.

Arnold, Matthew

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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

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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

Saying, Traditional

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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 carries a lot of wait

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

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Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

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Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

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

Massinger, Philip

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Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper sprinkle cool patience.

William Shakespeare

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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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Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

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

Granville, George

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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