Motivational Quotes

Patience

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in one ahead.

- Mcglashen, Bill

Best Quotes about Patience

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in one ahead.

Mcglashen, Bill

A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

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

Maistre, Joseph De

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

Helen Keller

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

Perera, George

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

Bierce, Ambrose

Let this be understood, then, at starting; that the patient conquest of difficulties which rise in the regular and legitimate channels of business and enterprise is not only essential in securing the success which you seek but it is essential to that preparation of your mind, requisite for the enjoyment of your successes, and for retaining them when gained. So, day by day, and week by week; so month after month, and year after year, work on, and in that process gain strength and symmetry, and nerve and knowledge, that when success, patiently and bravely worked for, shall come, it may find you prepared to receive it and keep it,

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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

William Shakespeare

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

13.

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 a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

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

William Shakespeare

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

George Jackson

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You will conquer by patience.

Motto

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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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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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Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

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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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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

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Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

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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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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.

Faulkner, William

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

Saadi

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

Granville, George

33.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Carrey, Jim

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Prescott, W. B.

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

William Shakespeare

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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 greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

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Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

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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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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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Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo