Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Margaret Thatcher

Best Quotes about Patience

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Isaac Newton

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

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.

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

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

William Shakespeare

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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 is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

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Patience is counting down without blasting off

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

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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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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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

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

Perera, George

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A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

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Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Carrey, Jim

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

Margaret Thatcher

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Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

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

Voltaire

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Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Patience carries a lot of wait

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

Franz Kafka

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Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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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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Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.