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

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

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

William Shakespeare

Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

You will conquer by patience.

Motto

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

Franz Kafka

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

Johnson, Barbara

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

Kafka, Franz

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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

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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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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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Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

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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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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

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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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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

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

William Shakespeare

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Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Helen Keller

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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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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

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

Carrey, Jim

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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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Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

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

George Jackson

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A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

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

Prescott, W. B.

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

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Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

William Shakespeare

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

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The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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