Motivational Quotes

Patience

A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

- Plaut

Best Quotes about 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.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.

Faulkner, William

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

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

Carrey, Jim

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

William Shakespeare

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Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Mcglashen, Bill

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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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Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

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

Bushnell, Horace

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

Proverb, Spanish

18.

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

Bacon, Francis

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

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Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

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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

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

George Jackson

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

Perera, George

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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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Helen Keller

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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

Saadi

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Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

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Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

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

William Shakespeare

43.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Margaret Thatcher

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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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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.