Motivational Quotes

Patience

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.

Best Quotes about Patience

1.

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

Margaret Thatcher

2.

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.

3.

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

Helen Keller

4.

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

Proverb, Spanish

5.

Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

6.

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

George Jackson

7.

Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

8.

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

Proverb, Chinese

9.

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.

10.

All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.

Kafka, Franz

11.

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.

12.

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

William Shakespeare

13.

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

William Shakespeare

14.

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

Prescott, W. B.

15.

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

Massinger, Philip

16.

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

Isaac Newton

17.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

18.

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

19.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

20.

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

21.

Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

22.

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

23.

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

24.

Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

25.

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

26.

Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

27.

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

28.

You will conquer by patience.

Motto

29.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

30.

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.

31.

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

32.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

33.

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

Epictetus

34.

Patience is counting down without blasting off

35.

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

Cobbett, William

36.

Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

37.

You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.

Stanislaw J. Lec

38.

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

Perera, George

39.

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

Hesiod

40.

A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

41.

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

Saying, Traditional

42.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

43.

Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

44.

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

William Shakespeare

45.

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

46.

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

Elizabeth Taylor

47.

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

William Shakespeare

48.

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

49.

Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

50.

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

Mcglashen, Bill

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