Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Proverb, Spanish

Best Quotes about Patience

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

Roux, Joseph

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

Prescott, W. B.

Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

George Jackson

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

Isaac Newton

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

Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Johnson, Barbara

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

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

Voltaire

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

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Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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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 carries a lot of wait

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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

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Patience is counting down without blasting off

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Margaret Thatcher

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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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Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

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Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

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

Faulkner, William

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

William Shakespeare

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

Carrey, Jim

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.

Franz Kafka

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

Massinger, Philip

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

William Shakespeare

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Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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