Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Patience

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

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

Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

Roux, Joseph

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

William Shakespeare

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

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

Johnson, Barbara

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

Saying, Traditional

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

13.

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

Carrey, Jim

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

Franz Kafka

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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All things come to him who waits -- provided he knows what he is waiting for.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

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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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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 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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Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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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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Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in one ahead.

Mcglashen, Bill

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

William Shakespeare

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

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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

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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 best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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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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.