Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Perera, George

Best Quotes about Patience

1.

Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

2.

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

3.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

4.

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

Granville, George

5.

Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.

Saadi

6.

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

7.

Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

8.

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

Massinger, Philip

9.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

10.

Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

11.

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

Voltaire

12.

Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

13.

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

14.

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

15.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

16.

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

17.

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

Epictetus

18.

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.

19.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

20.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

21.

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

22.

Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

23.

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

24.

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

25.

With close-lipped Patience for our only friend, Sad Patience, too near neighbor to Despair.

Arnold, Matthew

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

29.

Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

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

George Jackson

31.

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

Cobbett, William

32.

Patience carries a lot of wait

33.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

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

Helen Keller

35.

Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

36.

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

Carrey, Jim

37.

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

William Shakespeare

38.

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

39.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

40.

If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big.

Hesiod

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Roux, Joseph

45.

Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

46.

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

Bushnell, Horace

47.

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

Bacon, Francis

48.

Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

49.

Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

50.

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.