Motivational Quotes

Patience

Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

- Johnson, Barbara

Best Quotes about Patience

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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.

2.

Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

3.

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

Granville, George

4.

Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

5.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

6.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

7.

You will conquer by patience.

Motto

8.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

9.

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

10.

Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

11.

Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

12.

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

Bushnell, Horace

13.

Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

14.

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.

15.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

16.

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

17.

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.

18.

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

Franz Kafka

19.

Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

20.

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

21.

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength

Colton, Charles Caleb

22.

Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

23.

Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Cobbett, William

27.

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

28.

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

Kafka, Franz

29.

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

Isaac Newton

30.

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

Saadi

31.

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

Hesiod

32.

Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

33.

Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

34.

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

Arnold, Matthew

35.

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

36.

Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

37.

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

38.

Patience carries a lot of wait

39.

Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

41.

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

George Jackson

42.

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

Proverb, Spanish

43.

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

William Shakespeare

44.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

45.

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

46.

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

Forbes, B. C.

47.

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

William Shakespeare

48.

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

Faulkner, William

49.

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

50.

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