Motivational Quotes

Patience

Patience is the key to contentment.

- Mohammed

Best Quotes about Patience

1.

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

2.

Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

3.

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

4.

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

Roux, Joseph

5.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

6.

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

7.

A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

8.

You will conquer by patience.

Motto

9.

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

Isaac Newton

10.

Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

11.

Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.

Chesterfield, Lord

12.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

13.

It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.

Bushnell, Horace

14.

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

William Shakespeare

15.

Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

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.

17.

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.

18.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

19.

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

Faulkner, William

20.

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

Helen Keller

21.

Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

22.

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

Saying, Traditional

23.

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

Carrey, Jim

24.

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

Shakespeare, William

25.

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

Hesiod

26.

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

27.

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

Cobbett, William

28.

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

Perera, George

29.

Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

30.

All things come to him who waits -- provided he knows what he is waiting for.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

31.

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

32.

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

William Shakespeare

33.

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

William Shakespeare

34.

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

35.

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

36.

Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

37.

Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

38.

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

39.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

40.

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

Proverb, Chinese

41.

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

42.

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

William Shakespeare

43.

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

44.

Patience is counting down without blasting off

45.

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

46.

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

Saadi

47.

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

48.

It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

Elizabeth Taylor

49.

The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

50.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.