Motivational Quotes

Patience

Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

- Ma, Sri Anandamayi

Best Quotes about Patience

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

William Shakespeare

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

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

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 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.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

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

Johnson, Barbara

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Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

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Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

17.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Prescott, W. B.

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

Bacon, Francis

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We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

Helen Keller

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

Bushnell, Horace

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

Bhagavad Gita

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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.

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

Carrey, Jim

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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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

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

Perera, George

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

Massinger, Philip

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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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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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Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

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A high hope for a low heaven: God grant us patience!

William Shakespeare

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Saying, Traditional

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A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

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

Proverb, Chinese

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