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

1.

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

2.

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

Isaac Newton

3.

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

4.

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

5.

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

6.

A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.

Faulkner, William

7.

Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

8.

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

Mcglashen, Bill

9.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

10.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

11.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

12.

Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

13.

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

14.

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

15.

You will conquer by patience.

Motto

16.

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.

17.

Let this be understood, then, at starting; that the patient conquest of difficulties which rise in the regular and legitimate channels of business and enterprise is not only essential in securing the success which you seek but it is essential to that preparation of your mind, requisite for the enjoyment of your successes, and for retaining them when gained. So, day by day, and week by week; so month after month, and year after year, work on, and in that process gain strength and symmetry, and nerve and knowledge, that when success, patiently and bravely worked for, shall come, it may find you prepared to receive it and keep it,

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

18.

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

Granville, George

19.

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

William Shakespeare

20.

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.

21.

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

Shakespeare, William

22.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

23.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

24.

Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

Forbes, B. C.

25.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

26.

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

Bacon, Francis

27.

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

Cobbett, William

28.

Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

29.

Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

30.

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

Prescott, W. B.

31.

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

32.

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

Voltaire

33.

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

George Jackson

34.

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

Margaret Thatcher

35.

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

36.

Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

37.

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

William Shakespeare

38.

All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.

Kafka, Franz

39.

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

Helen Keller

40.

Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

41.

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

Bushnell, Horace

42.

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

43.

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

44.

Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

45.

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

Proverb, Spanish

46.

Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

47.

It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.