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

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Bushnell, Horace

Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Of all the things that tax a man's patience, there's nothing to compare with a stuck zipper.

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

Voltaire

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.

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

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

William Shakespeare

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Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

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

Margaret Thatcher

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

Mcglashen, Bill

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

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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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Patience is counting down without blasting off

18.

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

Johnson, Barbara

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Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Saadi

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

Faulkner, William

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

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Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

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

Forbes, B. C.

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Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

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

Prescott, W. B.

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You will conquer by patience.

Motto

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

William Shakespeare

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

Bacon, Francis

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Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Saying, Traditional

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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

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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

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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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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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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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Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.

Brian Adams

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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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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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Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

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

Roux, Joseph