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

1.

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

2.

Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

3.

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

William Shakespeare

4.

A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

5.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

6.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

7.

Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

8.

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

9.

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

Epictetus

10.

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

Carrey, Jim

11.

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.

12.

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

13.

Patience carries a lot of wait

14.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

15.

Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

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

Perera, George

17.

Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

18.

Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

19.

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

Arnold, Matthew

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

William Shakespeare

23.

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

Saying, Traditional

24.

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

25.

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

26.

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

William Shakespeare

27.

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

28.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

29.

You will conquer by patience.

Motto

30.

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

31.

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

Saadi

32.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

33.

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

34.

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

Franz Kafka

35.

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

Isaac Newton

36.

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.

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.

Patience is counting down without blasting off

39.

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

40.

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.

41.

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

42.

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

Margaret Thatcher

43.

Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

44.

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

45.

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