Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Faulkner, William

Best Quotes about Patience

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

Granville, George

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

William Shakespeare

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.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Roux, Joseph

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

Saadi

Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

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

Helen Keller

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

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

William Shakespeare

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Saying, Traditional

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A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Faulkner, William

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

William Shakespeare

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Franz Kafka

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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Margaret Thatcher

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Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

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

Bacon, Francis

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Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

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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.

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Carrey, Jim