Motivational Quotes

Patience

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.

Best Quotes about Patience

1.

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

2.

To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success.

Maistre, Joseph De

3.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

4.

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

Massinger, Philip

5.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

6.

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

Isaac Newton

7.

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

8.

It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.

Cobbett, William

9.

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

10.

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

Epictetus

11.

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

Granville, George

12.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

13.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

14.

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

Voltaire

15.

A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

16.

Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Saying, Traditional

20.

Patience is counting down without blasting off

21.

If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big.

Hesiod

22.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

23.

Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

27.

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

Arnold, Matthew

28.

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

Franz Kafka

29.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

30.

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

31.

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

32.

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

Bhagavad Gita

33.

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

George Jackson

34.

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

35.

Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

36.

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

Kafka, Franz

37.

Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

38.

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.

39.

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

Margaret Thatcher

40.

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

41.

Patience carries a lot of wait

42.

Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

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

William Shakespeare

44.

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

William Shakespeare

45.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

46.

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

47.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

48.

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

Forbes, B. C.

49.

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 be powerless to vex your mind.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

50.

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

Johnson, Barbara