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.

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

2.

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

Forbes, B. C.

3.

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

4.

You will conquer by patience.

Motto

5.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

6.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

Chaplin, Charlie

7.

Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

8.

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

Bhagavad Gita

9.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

10.

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

Bacon, Francis

11.

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

12.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

13.

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

14.

Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

15.

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

Isaac Newton

16.

Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

17.

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

18.

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

19.

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

William Shakespeare

20.

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

Voltaire

21.

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

22.

Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

23.

Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

24.

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

Proverb, Spanish

25.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

26.

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

Johnson, Barbara

27.

Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

28.

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

29.

Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

30.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

31.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

32.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

34.

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

Saadi

35.

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

George Jackson

36.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

37.

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

Roux, Joseph

38.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

39.

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

William Shakespeare

40.

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

Perera, George

41.

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

William Shakespeare

42.

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

Carrey, Jim

43.

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

Kafka, Franz

44.

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

45.

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

Faulkner, William

46.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

47.

Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

48.

Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

49.

There will be a time when loud-mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self destruct. It never fails.

Richard Rybolt

50.

Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.

Auden, W. H.