Motivational Quotes

Patience

Patience is the key to contentment.

- Mohammed

Best Quotes about Patience

1.

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

Saadi

2.

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

3.

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

Margaret Thatcher

4.

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

Roux, Joseph

5.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

6.

Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

7.

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.

8.

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

Isaac Newton

9.

Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow -- that is patience.

10.

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

Forbes, B. C.

11.

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

12.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

13.

Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

14.

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

15.

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

Carrey, Jim

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Granville, George

19.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

20.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

21.

Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

22.

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

23.

Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

25.

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

William Shakespeare

26.

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

William Shakespeare

27.

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

28.

Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

29.

Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

30.

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

31.

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

Bacon, Francis

32.

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

Hesiod

33.

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

34.

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

Helen Keller

35.

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

36.

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

Cobbett, William

37.

Had it pleas'd heaven to try me with affliction... I should have found in some place of my soul a drop of patience.