Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Chesterfield, Lord

Best Quotes about Patience

Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Patience carries a lot of wait

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

Helen Keller

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

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

Mcglashen, Bill

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

Franz Kafka

Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

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

Prescott, W. B.

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

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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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Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Epictetus

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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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 is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

William Shakespeare

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Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

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

George Jackson

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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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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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A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

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

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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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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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Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

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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 is counting down without blasting off

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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