Motivational Quotes

Patience

Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

- Syrus, Publilius

Best Quotes about Patience

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

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.

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

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

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

Arnold, Matthew

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

10.

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.

11.

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

12.

A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

13.

Patience carries a lot of wait

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Saying, Traditional

17.

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

Margaret Thatcher

18.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

19.

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

Bacon, Francis

20.

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

21.

Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

22.

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

23.

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

Cobbett, William

24.

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

William Shakespeare

25.

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

Saadi

26.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

27.

Patience is not active; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

28.

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

29.

Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

30.

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

31.

Patience and the passage of time do more than strength and fury.

La Fontaine, Jean De

32.

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

Elizabeth Taylor

33.

Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

34.

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

George Jackson

35.

Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

36.

Patience is counting down without blasting off

37.

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

Voltaire

38.

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

William Shakespeare

39.

Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

Johnson, Barbara

40.

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

Bushnell, Horace

41.

Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.

Brian Adams

42.

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

Prescott, W. B.

43.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

44.

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

45.

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

46.

Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow -- that is patience.

47.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

48.

Patience in the present, faith in the future, and joy in the doing

Perera, George

49.

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

Thatcher, Margaret