Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Patience

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Mcglashen, Bill

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

William Shakespeare

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

Patience is counting down without blasting off

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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

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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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Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper sprinkle cool patience.

William Shakespeare

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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

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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.

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Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

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Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bacon, Francis

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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.

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

Perera, George

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

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

Margaret Thatcher

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

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

Saadi

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Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Massinger, Philip

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

Voltaire

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

Roux, Joseph

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Stanislaw J. Lec