Motivational Quotes

Patience

Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

- Ma, Sri Anandamayi

Best Quotes about Patience

Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

Epictetus

Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.

Franz Kafka

Patience is counting down without blasting off

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

William Shakespeare

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Margaret Thatcher

11.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Massinger, Philip

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

William Shakespeare

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Johnson, Barbara

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

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

William Shakespeare

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

Prescott, W. B.

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Isaac Newton

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Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

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

William Shakespeare

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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

34.

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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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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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 will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.

Einstein, Albert

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

Voltaire

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Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

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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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Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Stanislaw J. Lec