Motivational Quotes

Patience

Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Patience

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.

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

Isaac Newton

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

George Jackson

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

Massinger, Philip

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

Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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.

You will conquer by patience.

Motto

Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.

Chesterfield, Lord

10.

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

Saying, Traditional

11.

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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Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Prescott, W. B.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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Little by little, through patience and repeated effort, the mind will become stilled in the Self.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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 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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Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

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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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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

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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 then be powerless to vex your mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

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

William Shakespeare

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

Saadi

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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

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

Mcglashen, Bill

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

Voltaire

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Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

33.

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

34.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Forbes, B. C.

38.

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

Faulkner, William

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Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

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Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Arnold, Matthew

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