Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

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 be powerless to vex your mind.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Franz Kafka

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

Perera, George

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

Roux, Joseph

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

Cobbett, William

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.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

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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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Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

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

Voltaire

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

William Shakespeare

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A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

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

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Carrey, Jim

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Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

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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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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, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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

Saadi

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Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

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You will conquer by patience.

Motto

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Leonardo da Vinci

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Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

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

Saying, Traditional

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Hesiod