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

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

Bhagavad Gita

Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

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

William Shakespeare

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

Johnson, Barbara

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

Massinger, Philip

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.

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

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

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

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Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

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

Bacon, Francis

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

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

Roux, Joseph

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Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

William Shakespeare

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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A very little thief of occasion will rob you of a great deal 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

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Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Granville, George

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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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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.

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Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

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Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

William Shakespeare

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

Prescott, W. B.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

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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.