Motivational Quotes

Patience

Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Patience

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

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

Faulkner, William

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

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.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

Patience is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not.

Granville, George

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

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

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

William Shakespeare

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A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

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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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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.

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Franz Kafka

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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

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

Massinger, Philip

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

Prescott, W. B.

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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 key to contentment.

Mohammed

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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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Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Margaret Thatcher

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

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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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Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

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

William Shakespeare

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Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Of all the things that tax a man's patience, there's nothing to compare with a stuck zipper.

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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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You will conquer by patience.

Motto

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

Proverb, Chinese

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