Motivational Quotes

Patience

Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

- Ma, Sri Anandamayi

Best Quotes about Patience

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Granville, George

Patience is counting down without blasting off

Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

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

Roux, Joseph

Patience carries a lot of wait

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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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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Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

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

William Shakespeare

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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

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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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Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Voltaire

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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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Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

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

Franz Kafka

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

William Shakespeare

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

Epictetus

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All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.

Kafka, Franz

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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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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

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

George Jackson

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Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

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Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

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

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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