Motivational Quotes

Patience

Patience carries a lot of wait

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Best Quotes about Patience

1.

Let me look upward into the branches of the flowering oak and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

2.

Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

Forbes, B. C.

3.

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

Arnold, Matthew

4.

Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

5.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

6.

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

Saadi

7.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

8.

Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

9.

Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

10.

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

Franz Kafka

11.

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

Roux, Joseph

12.

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

13.

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

14.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

15.

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.

16.

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

Bushnell, Horace

17.

Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

18.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

19.

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

Massinger, Philip

20.

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.

21.

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

Kafka, Franz

22.

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

23.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

24.

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

Carrey, Jim

25.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

26.

Patience is counting down without blasting off

27.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

28.

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

29.

Every man must patiently bide his time. He must wait -- not in listless idleness but in constant, steady, cheerful endeavors, always willing and fulfilling and accomplishing his task, that when the occasion comes he may be equal to the occasion.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

30.

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

Shakespeare, William

31.

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

Bhagavad Gita

32.

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

Proverb, Chinese

33.

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

34.

Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

35.

You will conquer by patience.

Motto

36.

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

37.

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

38.

Had it pleas'd heaven to try me with affliction... I should have found in some place of my soul a drop of patience.

William Shakespeare

39.

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

40.

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

41.

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

42.

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

Perera, George

43.

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

William Shakespeare

44.

Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.