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

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

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.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Hesiod

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

Faulkner, William

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

Helen Keller

Patience carries a lot of wait

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

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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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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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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A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

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

George Jackson

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

Voltaire

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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All things come to him who waits -- provided he knows what he is waiting for.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Franz Kafka

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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

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

Margaret Thatcher

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Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

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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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Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

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Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

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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 the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

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

William Shakespeare

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Saying, Traditional

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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 support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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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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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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Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

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Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

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

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You will conquer by patience.

Motto

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