Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Patience

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

Helen Keller

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

Franz Kafka

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

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

Maistre, Joseph De

Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

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

Shakespeare, William

Patience carries a lot of wait

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

Proverb, Chinese

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

William Shakespeare

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Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Johnson, Barbara

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

Carrey, Jim

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

Perera, George

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Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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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 counting down without blasting off

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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.

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

Massinger, Philip

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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You will conquer by patience.

Motto

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

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Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Arnold, Matthew

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

George Jackson

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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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Patience is not active; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

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

William Shakespeare

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

Roux, Joseph

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

Mcglashen, Bill

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

Epictetus

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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 a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.