Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

Best Quotes about Patience

Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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

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

Margaret Thatcher

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

Patience permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord when we are tossed about by suffering as if by surf. When the undertow grasps us we will realize that we are somehow being carried forward even as we tumble. We are actually being -helped even as we cry for help.

Maxwell, Neal A.

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.

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

Bushnell, Horace

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

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

Franz Kafka

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

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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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 is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

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

Voltaire

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Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

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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 be powerless to vex your mind.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Massinger, Philip

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

Prescott, W. B.

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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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Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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

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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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Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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Leonardo da Vinci

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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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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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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 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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Patience carries a lot of wait

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

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

Forbes, B. C.

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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

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Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

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Let this be understood, then, at starting; that the patient conquest of difficulties which rise in the regular and legitimate channels of business and enterprise is not only essential in securing the success which you seek but it is essential to that preparation of your mind, requisite for the enjoyment of your successes, and for retaining them when gained. So, day by day, and week by week; so month after month, and year after year, work on, and in that process gain strength and symmetry, and nerve and knowledge, that when success, patiently and bravely worked for, shall come, it may find you prepared to receive it and keep it,

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Arnold, Matthew