Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

Best Quotes about Patience

A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Proverb, Chinese

Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

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

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

Bhagavad Gita

Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

10.

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

11.

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

Saying, Traditional

12.

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.

13.

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

14.

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

William Shakespeare

15.

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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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

17.

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

Carrey, Jim

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

21.

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

William Shakespeare

22.

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

Johnson, Barbara

23.

Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

24.

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

Granville, George

25.

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

26.

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

William Shakespeare

27.

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

William Shakespeare

28.

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.

29.

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

30.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

31.

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

32.

Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

33.

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

34.

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

Perera, George

35.

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

36.

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

Proverb, Spanish

37.

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

Roux, Joseph

38.

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

Forbes, B. C.

39.

Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

40.

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

41.

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

George Jackson

42.

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.

43.

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

44.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

45.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

46.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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