Motivational Quotes

Patience

Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Patience

1.

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

2.

Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

3.

Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

4.

Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

5.

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.

6.

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

7.

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

8.

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.

9.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

10.

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

11.

Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

12.

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

Massinger, Philip

13.

Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

14.

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

Isaac Newton

15.

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

William Shakespeare

16.

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

17.

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

18.

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

Voltaire

19.

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

Elizabeth Taylor

20.

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

21.

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

22.

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

Arnold, Matthew

23.

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

Margaret Thatcher

24.

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

William Shakespeare

25.

Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

26.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

27.

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

28.

Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

29.

It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.

Bushnell, Horace

30.

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

31.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

32.

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

33.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

34.

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

Bhagavad Gita

35.

The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

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

37.

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

Epictetus

38.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

39.

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

Saadi

40.

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

41.

Consider the hour-glass; there is nothing to be accomplished by rattling or shaking; you have to wait patiently until the sand, grain by grain, has run from one funnel into the other.

Morgenstern, John Christian

42.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

43.

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

Mcglashen, Bill

44.

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

45.

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

Roux, Joseph

46.

You will conquer by patience.

Motto

47.

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

Bacon, Francis

48.

Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

49.

All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.

Kafka, Franz

50.

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