Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Saying, Traditional

Best Quotes about Patience

Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

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

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

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

Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

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

William Shakespeare

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

Bacon, Francis

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

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.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

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Patience carries a lot of wait

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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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You will conquer by patience.

Motto

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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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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

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

Margaret Thatcher

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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

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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 patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.

Saadi

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

Epictetus

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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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Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

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Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Prescott, W. B.

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

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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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Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them -- every day begin the task anew -

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Perera, George

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Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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.