Motivational Quotes

Patience

A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

- Plaut

Best Quotes about Patience

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

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

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.

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow -- that is patience.

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

Epictetus

10.

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

Prescott, W. B.

11.

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

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

Saadi

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

Cobbett, William

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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In all evils which admits a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes the time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might remove the cause.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Arnold, Matthew

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

George Jackson

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Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

41.

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

Bushnell, Horace

42.

Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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