Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

Best Quotes about Patience

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

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

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

Perera, George

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Roux, Joseph

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Of all the things that tax a man's patience, there's nothing to compare with a stuck zipper.

11.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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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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Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

Johnson, Barbara

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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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

George Jackson

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

Voltaire

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Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Saying, Traditional

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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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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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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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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

25.

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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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

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

32.

Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

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Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

34.

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

35.

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

Helen Keller

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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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 carries a lot of wait

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

Cobbett, William