Motivational Quotes

Patience

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.

Best Quotes about Patience

Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

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

A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big.

Hesiod

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

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 be powerless to vex your mind.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Patience is counting down without blasting off

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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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Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Voltaire

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Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Arnold, Matthew

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Saadi

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You will conquer by patience.

Motto

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Had it pleas'd heaven to try me with affliction... I should have found in some place of my soul a drop of patience.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

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

Roux, Joseph

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Epictetus

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Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

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It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.

Cobbett, William

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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

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

Saying, Traditional

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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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Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

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

George Jackson

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in one ahead.