Motivational Quotes

Patience

All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.

- Kafka, Franz

Best Quotes about Patience

1.

Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

2.

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

Isaac Newton

3.

Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

4.

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

5.

Patience carries a lot of wait

6.

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

7.

Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

8.

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

9.

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

Granville, George

10.

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.

11.

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.

12.

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.

13.

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

Bushnell, Horace

14.

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

Prescott, W. B.

15.

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

16.

Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

17.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

18.

Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.

Chesterfield, Lord

19.

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

20.

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

Perera, George

21.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

22.

A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

23.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

24.

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

William Shakespeare

25.

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.

26.

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

Bacon, Francis

27.

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

Cobbett, William

28.

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

29.

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

Elizabeth Taylor

30.

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

31.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

33.

If you are tempted to lose patience with your fellowman; stop and think how patient God has been with you.

34.

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

Arnold, Matthew

35.

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

Proverb, Chinese

36.

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

37.

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

George Jackson

38.

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

Carrey, Jim

39.

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

40.

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.

41.

There will be a time when loud-mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self destruct. It never fails.

Richard Rybolt

42.

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

43.

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

44.

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

William Shakespeare

45.

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