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

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

Saadi

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.

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

Proverb, Chinese

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Epictetus

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

Bhagavad Gita

Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

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

Carrey, Jim

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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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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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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

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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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Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

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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 then be powerless to vex your mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

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

William Shakespeare

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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 who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees.

William Shakespeare

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

Prescott, W. B.

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Roux, Joseph

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Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

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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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Patience carries a lot of wait

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Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

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

Epictetus

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Da Vinci, Leonardo

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You will conquer by patience.

Motto

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Franz Kafka

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Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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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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Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

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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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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

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

Massinger, Philip