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

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

Cobbett, William

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

Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

Elizabeth Taylor

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

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

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

Margaret Thatcher

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

William Shakespeare

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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 something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in one ahead.

Mcglashen, Bill

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

Saadi

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Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Carrey, Jim

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Patience is counting down without blasting off

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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 a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

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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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A very little thief of occasion will rob you of a great deal of patience.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Prescott, W. B.

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

Perera, George

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

Franz Kafka

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A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

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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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Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Granville, George

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I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.

Einstein, Albert

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Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

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

William Shakespeare

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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 passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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