Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Johnson, Barbara

Best Quotes about Patience

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

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

William Shakespeare

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.

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

Prescott, W. B.

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

George Jackson

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 be powerless to vex your mind.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Elizabeth Taylor

Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Patience carries a lot of wait

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Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

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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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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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You will conquer by patience.

Motto

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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.

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

Margaret Thatcher

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To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success.

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

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

Arnold, Matthew

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

William Shakespeare

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

Massinger, Philip

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

Carrey, Jim

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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 counting down without blasting off

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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

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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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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, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

Roux, Joseph

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

Voltaire

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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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Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Bacon, Francis

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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 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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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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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 the key to contentment.

Mohammed

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Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Franz Kafka

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