Motivational Quotes

Patience

Patience is the key to contentment.

- Mohammed

Best Quotes about Patience

Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

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

Faulkner, William

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.

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

Mcglashen, Bill

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

Perera, George

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

William Shakespeare

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Massinger, Philip

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

Voltaire

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

Margaret Thatcher

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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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Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

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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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Work and wait, work and wait is what God says to us in creation.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Epictetus

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

William Shakespeare

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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 best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

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Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Carrey, Jim

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Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

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

Cobbett, William

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

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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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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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Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

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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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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

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Patience is counting down without blasting off

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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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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

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Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

William Shakespeare

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Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi