Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Best Quotes about Patience

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

Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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.

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

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

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

Bushnell, Horace

Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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 then be powerless to vex your mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

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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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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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Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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

Hesiod

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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

Roux, Joseph

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

Mcglashen, Bill

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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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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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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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The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Voltaire

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Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

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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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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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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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Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

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

William Shakespeare

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Patience is counting down without blasting off

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Patience carries a lot of wait

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