Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Patience

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.

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

Carrey, Jim

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

Epictetus

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

Massinger, Philip

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

Forbes, B. C.

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Voltaire

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

Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

10.

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

15.

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

William Shakespeare

16.

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

17.

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

William Shakespeare

18.

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

Hesiod

19.

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

William Shakespeare

20.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

21.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

22.

Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

23.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

24.

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

25.

Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

26.

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

27.

Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

28.

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

Elizabeth Taylor

29.

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

30.

A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

31.

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

Bushnell, Horace

32.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

33.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

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

Shakespeare, William

35.

Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

36.

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

Isaac Newton

37.

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

Helen Keller

38.

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

39.

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

William Shakespeare

40.

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

Proverb, Spanish

41.

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

Johnson, Barbara

42.

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

Bhagavad Gita

43.

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

Bacon, Francis

44.

Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

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

Faulkner, William

46.

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

William Shakespeare

47.

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

48.

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.

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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

50.

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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