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 the key to contentment.

Mohammed

Sometimes it helps to know that I just can't do it all. One step at a time is all that's possible -- even when those steps are taken on the run.

Schaef, Anne W.

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

Epictetus

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

Kafka, Franz

Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

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Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

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Patience carries a lot of wait

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

Saadi

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

Voltaire

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Arnold, Matthew

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

George Jackson

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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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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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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Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Perera, George

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

William Shakespeare

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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

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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

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Patience is counting down without blasting off

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Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

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

Massinger, Philip

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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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