Motivational Quotes

Patience

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.

Best Quotes about Patience

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

Bacon, Francis

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.

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

Arnold, Matthew

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

Patience is counting down without blasting off

Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

Those who desire to become rich, desire it at once.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

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

Carrey, Jim

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Franz Kafka

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

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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

Prescott, W. B.

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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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Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Hesiod

28.

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Massinger, Philip

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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

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

Perera, George

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Patience carries a lot of wait

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

William Shakespeare

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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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The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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 is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

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Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

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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.