Motivational Quotes

Patience

Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

- Syrus, Publilius

Best Quotes about Patience

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

Granville, George

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

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

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

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

Epictetus

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Arnold, Matthew

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Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

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Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Carrey, Jim

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Voltaire

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

Massinger, Philip

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Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

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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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Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

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