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

It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.

Bushnell, Horace

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

Mcglashen, Bill

Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

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

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

Franz Kafka

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Massinger, Philip

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

Prescott, W. B.

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A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Elizabeth Taylor

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

Johnson, Barbara

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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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.

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

Granville, George

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Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

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

Voltaire

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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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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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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.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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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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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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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Perera, George

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

Carrey, Jim

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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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We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

Helen Keller

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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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Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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Patience is counting down without blasting off

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It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.

Cobbett, William