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

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

Epictetus

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

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

A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

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

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

Johnson, Barbara

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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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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

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

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

Cobbett, William

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bushnell, Horace

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

Perera, George

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Saadi

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

William Shakespeare

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big.

Hesiod

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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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Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

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Of all the things that tax a man's patience, there's nothing to compare with a stuck zipper.

40.

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

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare