Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

Best Quotes about Patience

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

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

George Jackson

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

William Shakespeare

Patience is counting down without blasting off

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Prescott, W. B.

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

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Franz Kafka

10.

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.

11.

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

12.

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

Faulkner, William

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Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow -- that is patience.

14.

Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

15.

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

Epictetus

16.

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

Johnson, Barbara

18.

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

Forbes, B. C.

20.

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

Hesiod

21.

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

26.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

27.

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

Shakespeare, William

28.

Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

29.

A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

30.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

31.

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

Isaac Newton

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

Voltaire

33.

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

34.

Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

35.

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Roux, Joseph

39.

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

William Shakespeare

40.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

41.

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

Saying, Traditional

42.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

44.

Patience carries a lot of wait

45.

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

46.

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Perera, George

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

Granville, George

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Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.