Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

Best Quotes about Patience

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

Prescott, W. B.

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

William Shakespeare

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

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.

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

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

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

11.

Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

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

George Jackson

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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 be powerless to vex your mind.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Carrey, Jim

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

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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.

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

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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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Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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

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

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

Perera, George

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

Mcglashen, Bill

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

Franz Kafka

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Leonardo da Vinci

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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

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Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Voltaire

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Massinger, Philip

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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 when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

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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 is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

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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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The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

Epictetus

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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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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