Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Patience

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

Elizabeth Taylor

Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

Faulkner, William

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

Voltaire

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

Prescott, W. B.

Patience is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not.

Granville, George

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

Isaac Newton

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

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

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

Bhagavad Gita

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Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

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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

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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

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Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

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

Margaret Thatcher

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Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Massinger, Philip

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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 be powerless to vex your mind.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Mcglashen, Bill

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Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

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

William Shakespeare

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Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

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Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

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

George Jackson

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

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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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Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

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Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Epictetus

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert