Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Saying, Traditional

Best Quotes about Patience

Patience is counting down without blasting off

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Epictetus

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

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

Prescott, W. B.

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

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

Johnson, Barbara

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

Forbes, B. C.

10.

Patience is not active; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

11.

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

Shakespeare, William

12.

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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Carrey, Jim

15.

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

Proverb, Chinese

16.

Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

17.

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

18.

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

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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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Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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

William Shakespeare

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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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A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

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

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

Elizabeth Taylor

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In all evils which admits a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes the time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might remove the cause.

Johnson, Samuel

29.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

30.

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

Perera, George

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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

35.

Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

36.

Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

37.

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

Franz Kafka

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Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

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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 key to contentment.

Mohammed

41.

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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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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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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.

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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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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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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

50.

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

Saying, Traditional