Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Hesiod

Best Quotes about Patience

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

George Jackson

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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.

4.

Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

5.

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

6.

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

7.

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

Margaret Thatcher

8.

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

William Shakespeare

9.

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

10.

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

Carrey, Jim

11.

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

Franz Kafka

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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

14.

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

15.

Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

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Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

17.

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

18.

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

19.

Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

20.

You will conquer by patience.

Motto

21.

Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

22.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

23.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

28.

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

William Shakespeare

29.

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.

30.

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

31.

Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

32.

Patience carries a lot of wait

33.

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.

34.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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.

38.

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

Proverb, Spanish

40.

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

Helen Keller

41.

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

42.

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

Granville, George

43.

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

Cobbett, William

44.

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

Bacon, Francis

45.

Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

46.

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.

48.

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

Epictetus

49.

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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Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow -- that is patience.