Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Patience

1.

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

Roux, Joseph

2.

Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

3.

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

Carrey, Jim

4.

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

5.

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

Prescott, W. B.

6.

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

7.

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

8.

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

Elizabeth Taylor

9.

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

Bushnell, Horace

10.

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

11.

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

Proverb, Chinese

12.

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

Epictetus

13.

Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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.

17.

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

William Shakespeare

18.

Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

19.

Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

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

21.

Be patient. The path of self-discipline that leads to God-realization is not an easy path: obstacles and sufferings are on the path; the latter you must bear, and the former overcome -- all by His help. His help comes only through concentration. Repetition of God's name helps concentration.

Ramdas, Swami

22.

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

William Shakespeare

23.

Patience carries a lot of wait

24.

Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

25.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

26.

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

27.

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

28.

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

29.

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

Johnson, Barbara

30.

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

Saadi

31.

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

William Shakespeare

32.

Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

33.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

34.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

35.

Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

36.

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

Saying, Traditional

37.

Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

38.

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

39.

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

Arnold, Matthew

40.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

41.

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

Perera, George

42.

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

43.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

44.

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

Faulkner, William

45.

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

46.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

47.

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

Proverb, Spanish

48.

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

William Shakespeare

49.

Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.