Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Bhagavad Gita

Best Quotes about Patience

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.

Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Massinger, Philip

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

William Shakespeare

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Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

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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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If you are tempted to lose patience with your fellowman; stop and think how patient God has been with you.

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

Mcglashen, Bill

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

Perera, George

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Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

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Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

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

Bacon, Francis

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

William Shakespeare

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

Roux, Joseph

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Prescott, W. B.

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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 the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

William Shakespeare

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Patience is counting down without blasting off

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

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

Forbes, B. C.

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Patience carries a lot of wait

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

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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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Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

William Shakespeare

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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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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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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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Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

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A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

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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