Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Patience

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

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

Isaac Newton

Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

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

Hesiod

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Mcglashen, Bill

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

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

Helen Keller

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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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A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

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

Arnold, Matthew

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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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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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Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

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

Franz Kafka

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

Perera, George

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

Saying, Traditional

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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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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

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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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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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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

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Saadi

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Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Prescott, W. B.

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Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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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Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

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Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

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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 virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not.

Granville, George

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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

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

Massinger, Philip

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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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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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