Motivational Quotes

Patience

Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Patience

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

Saadi

Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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.

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.

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

Margaret Thatcher

Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

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

Massinger, Philip

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

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

Cobbett, William

12.

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

13.

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

Carrey, Jim

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

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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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Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

20.

All things come to him who waits -- provided he knows what he is waiting for.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

21.

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

William Shakespeare

22.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Forbes, B. C.

25.

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

Granville, George

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

Saying, Traditional

30.

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

Prescott, W. B.

31.

You will conquer by patience.

Motto

32.

Patience carries a lot of wait

33.

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

34.

Patience is counting down without blasting off

35.

Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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Da Vinci, Leonardo

37.

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

38.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

39.

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

Epictetus

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

William Shakespeare

42.

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

43.

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

Elizabeth Taylor

44.

Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

45.

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

Bhagavad Gita

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Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

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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

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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.

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

Chesterfield, Lord