Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

Best Quotes about Patience

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

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

William Shakespeare

Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

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

Prescott, W. B.

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

Patience is counting down without blasting off

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

Bacon, Francis

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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.

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

Arnold, Matthew

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

George Jackson

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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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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.

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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. A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

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

Massinger, Philip

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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

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Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Patience carries a lot of wait

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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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 then be powerless to vex your mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

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Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

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

William Shakespeare

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Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

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Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Margaret Thatcher

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

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Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Perera, George

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You will conquer by patience.

Motto

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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 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

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Voltaire

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

Franz Kafka