Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Thatcher, Margaret

Best Quotes about Patience

1.

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

2.

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

Bushnell, Horace

3.

Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

4.

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

Granville, George

5.

You will conquer by patience.

Motto

6.

Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

7.

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

8.

Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

9.

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

Massinger, Philip

10.

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

Mcglashen, Bill

11.

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

12.

Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

13.

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

Saadi

14.

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

William Shakespeare

15.

Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

16.

Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

17.

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

Epictetus

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.

There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.

Franz Kafka

20.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

21.

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

Voltaire

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.

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

24.

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.

25.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

26.

Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

27.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

28.

Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

29.

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

30.

Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

31.

Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper sprinkle cool patience.

William Shakespeare

32.

Patience is counting down without blasting off

33.

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

34.

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

35.

Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

36.

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

William Shakespeare

37.

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

William Shakespeare

38.

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

39.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

40.

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

Johnson, Barbara

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.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

Helen Keller

43.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

44.

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

Shakespeare, William

45.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

46.

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

47.

Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

48.

A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

49.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

50.

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