Motivational Quotes

Patience

Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

- Johnson, Barbara

Best Quotes about Patience

1.

Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

2.

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

William Shakespeare

3.

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

4.

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

Arnold, Matthew

5.

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

6.

Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

7.

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

William Shakespeare

8.

Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

9.

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.

10.

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

11.

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

Margaret Thatcher

12.

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

Epictetus

13.

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

14.

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

15.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

16.

All things come to him who waits -- provided he knows what he is waiting for.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

17.

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

Proverb, Spanish

18.

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

19.

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

Faulkner, William

20.

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

21.

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

Saying, Traditional

22.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

23.

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

Saadi

24.

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

Cobbett, William

25.

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

Shakespeare, William

26.

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

Bhagavad Gita

27.

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.

28.

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

29.

Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

30.

Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

32.

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

33.

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

34.

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.

35.

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

36.

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

37.

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

William Shakespeare

38.

It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.

Bushnell, Horace

39.

Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

40.

The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

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

Granville, George

42.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

43.

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.

44.

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

William Shakespeare

45.

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

William Shakespeare

46.

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

Franz Kafka

47.

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

48.

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

49.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

50.

Patience carries a lot of wait