Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Perera, George

Best Quotes about Patience

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

Elizabeth Taylor

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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.

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

Epictetus

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

Saying, Traditional

Patience carries a lot of wait

Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

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

William Shakespeare

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

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A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

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

Johnson, Barbara

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Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

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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 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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You will conquer by patience.

Motto

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

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

Massinger, Philip

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Roux, Joseph

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

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Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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