Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Massinger, Philip

Best Quotes about Patience

Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Victor Hugo

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

Massinger, Philip

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

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

Elizabeth Taylor

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

With close-lipped Patience for our only friend, Sad Patience, too near neighbor to Despair.

Arnold, Matthew

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

Perera, George

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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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Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

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Let me look upward into the branches of the flowering oak and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

George Jackson

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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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All things come to him who waits -- provided he knows what he is waiting for.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

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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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Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

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

Carrey, Jim

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

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Patience carries a lot of wait

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

Margaret Thatcher

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

William Shakespeare

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Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Patience is the key to contentment.