Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Patience

1.

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.

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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

Carrey, Jim

5.

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

6.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

7.

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

Johnson, Barbara

8.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

9.

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

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

12.

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

Bacon, Francis

13.

Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

14.

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.

15.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

16.

Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

17.

A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

18.

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

19.

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

Isaac Newton

20.

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.

21.

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

William Shakespeare

22.

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

Proverb, Spanish

23.

Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

24.

Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

25.

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

26.

Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

27.

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

28.

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

Roux, Joseph

29.

Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

30.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

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

William Shakespeare

32.

Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

33.

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

34.

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

35.

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

36.

With close-lipped Patience for our only friend, Sad Patience, too near neighbor to Despair.

Arnold, Matthew

37.

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

Margaret Thatcher

38.

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

Shakespeare, William

39.

Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

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

41.

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

Voltaire

42.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

43.

Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

44.

Patience carries a lot of wait

45.

Patience. A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.

Bierce, Ambrose

46.

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

Proverb, Chinese

47.

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

Elizabeth Taylor

48.

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

Forbes, B. C.

49.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

50.

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them -- every day begin the task anew -

Francis De Sales, St.