Motivational Quotes

Patience

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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Best Quotes about Patience

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

Bhagavad Gita

2.

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

Cobbett, William

3.

Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

4.

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

Granville, George

5.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

6.

Dios tarda pero no olvida -- God delays but doesn't forget.

Proverb, Spanish

7.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

8.

Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

9.

Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

10.

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.

11.

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

Helen Keller

12.

Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

13.

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

Elizabeth Taylor

14.

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

Perera, George

15.

Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

16.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

17.

A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

18.

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

19.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

20.

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

21.

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

22.

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

Saadi

23.

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.

24.

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

Voltaire

25.

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

Proverb, Chinese

26.

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

Prescott, W. B.

27.

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

Bacon, Francis

28.

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

29.

Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

30.

Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

31.

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

32.

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

William Shakespeare

33.

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

34.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

35.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

36.

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

Arnold, Matthew

37.

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

Franz Kafka

38.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

39.

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

40.

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

Faulkner, William

41.

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

George Jackson

42.

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

Johnson, Barbara

43.

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

44.

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

45.

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

46.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

47.

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

Epictetus

48.

Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.