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

1.

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

2.

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

3.

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

William Shakespeare

4.

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

Carrey, Jim

5.

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

Bacon, Francis

6.

Patience permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord when we are tossed about by suffering as if by surf. When the undertow grasps us we will realize that we are somehow being carried forward even as we tumble. We are actually being -helped even as we cry for help.

Maxwell, Neal A.

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

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

William Shakespeare

13.

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

14.

With close-lipped Patience for our only friend, Sad Patience, too near neighbor to Despair.

Arnold, Matthew

15.

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

Proverb, Spanish

16.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

17.

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

Johnson, Barbara

18.

Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

19.

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

William Shakespeare

20.

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

Massinger, Philip

21.

Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

22.

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Perera, George

26.

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

27.

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.

28.

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

Faulkner, William

29.

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

Roux, Joseph

30.

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

Shakespeare, William

31.

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

Bushnell, Horace

32.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

33.

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

Proverb, Chinese

34.

Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

35.

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

William Shakespeare

36.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

37.

Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

38.

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

Elizabeth Taylor

39.

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

Isaac Newton

40.

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

41.

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

Helen Keller

42.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

43.

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

44.

Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

45.

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

Mcglashen, Bill

46.

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

Saying, Traditional

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