Motivational Quotes

Patience

Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

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Best Quotes about Patience

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

Helen Keller

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, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Massinger, Philip

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

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

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

William Shakespeare

10.

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.

Faulkner, William

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

Arnold, Matthew

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

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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.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Voltaire

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

21.

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

Johnson, Barbara

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

William Shakespeare

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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 be powerless to vex your mind.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

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Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

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

Perera, George

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

Elizabeth Taylor

28.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Granville, George

30.

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

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

William Shakespeare

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Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Roux, Joseph

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Cobbett, William

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Bushnell, Horace

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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

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

Isaac Newton

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

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

George Jackson

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Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

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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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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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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