Motivational Quotes

Patience

All things come to him who waits -- provided he knows what he is waiting for.

- Wilson, Woodrow T.

Best Quotes about Patience

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

Johnson, Barbara

Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

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

William Shakespeare

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

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

William Shakespeare

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

Saadi

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

William Shakespeare

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Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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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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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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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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

Bushnell, Horace

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Voltaire

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A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

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

Helen Keller

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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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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

William Shakespeare

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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.

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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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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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Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

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

Margaret Thatcher

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

George Jackson

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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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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

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

Mcglashen, Bill

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Be patient. The path of self-discipline that leads to God-realization is not an easy path: obstacles and sufferings are on the path; the latter you must bear, and the former overcome -- all by His help. His help comes only through concentration. Repetition of God's name helps concentration.

Ramdas, Swami

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

Perera, George

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All things come to him who waits -- provided he knows what he is waiting for.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

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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