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

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

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

Voltaire

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

Bushnell, Horace

Little by little, through patience and repeated effort, the mind will become stilled in the Self.

Bhagavad Gita

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

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

Isaac Newton

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.

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

Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

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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 sottish, and impatience does become a dog that's mad.

William Shakespeare

12.

You will conquer by patience.

Motto

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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

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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, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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

William Shakespeare

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Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

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

William Shakespeare

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Be patient. The path of self-discipline that leads to God-realization is not an easy path: obstacles and sufferings are on the path; the latter you must bear, and the former overcome -- all by His help. His help comes only through concentration. Repetition of God's name helps concentration.

Ramdas, Swami

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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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In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.

Prescott, W. B.

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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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Patience is not active; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

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

Mcglashen, Bill

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Proverb, Chinese

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A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

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Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

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Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

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Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

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Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

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

Forbes, B. C.

43.

Patience carries a lot of wait

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.

Franz Kafka

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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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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

48.

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 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 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