Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Saying, Traditional

Best Quotes about Patience

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

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Margaret Thatcher

Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Bushnell, Horace

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.

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A very little thief of occasion will rob you of a great deal of patience.

William Shakespeare

11.

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Saadi

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

George Jackson

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Faulkner, William

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

29.

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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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

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

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Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

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A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

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

William Shakespeare

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

40.

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

Prescott, W. B.

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

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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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Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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

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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

48.

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

Proverb, Spanish