Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Jackson, George Holbrook

Best Quotes about Patience

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

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

Voltaire

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

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

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

Thatcher, Margaret

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

You will conquer by patience.

Motto

Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

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

William Shakespeare

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

Bhagavad Gita

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Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

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I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

Chaplin, Charlie

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Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

William Shakespeare

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Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

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

Forbes, B. C.

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Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

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Patience is counting down without blasting off

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

William Shakespeare

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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 is power; with time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Cobbett, William

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Carrey, Jim

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

Bacon, Francis

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

William Shakespeare

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

Prescott, W. B.

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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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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

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

Granville, George

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Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

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Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

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A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

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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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Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

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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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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.