Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Patience

1.

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

Bhagavad Gita

2.

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

William Shakespeare

3.

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

4.

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

Cobbett, William

5.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

6.

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

7.

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

Margaret Thatcher

8.

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

Bacon, Francis

9.

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

10.

Patience is counting down without blasting off

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Saadi

14.

Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

15.

Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow -- that is patience.

16.

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

You will conquer by patience.

Motto

21.

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

Proverb, Chinese

22.

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

23.

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

24.

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

25.

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

Perera, George

26.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

27.

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

Franz Kafka

28.

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

William Shakespeare

29.

Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

30.

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

Prescott, W. B.

31.

Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

32.

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

Shakespeare, William

33.

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

Bushnell, Horace

34.

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

35.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

36.

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

William Shakespeare

37.

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

Mcglashen, Bill

38.

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

Proverb, Spanish

39.

Of all the things that tax a man's patience, there's nothing to compare with a stuck zipper.

40.

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

William Shakespeare

41.

Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

42.

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

Voltaire

43.

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.

44.

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

William Shakespeare

45.

Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

46.

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

Saying, Traditional

47.

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