Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Newton, Sir Isaac

Best Quotes about Patience

1.

Patience is counting down without blasting off

2.

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

3.

You will conquer by patience.

Motto

4.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

5.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

6.

Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

7.

Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

8.

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

George Jackson

9.

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

Franz Kafka

10.

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

Bacon, Francis

11.

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

12.

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.

13.

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

Kafka, Franz

14.

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

Bushnell, Horace

15.

It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

Elizabeth Taylor

16.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

17.

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

18.

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

19.

Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow -- that is patience.

20.

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

Prescott, W. B.

21.

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

Hesiod

22.

Work and wait, work and wait is what God says to us in creation.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

23.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

24.

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

Bhagavad Gita

25.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

26.

Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

27.

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

Faulkner, William

28.

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

William Shakespeare

29.

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

30.

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

31.

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

Granville, George

32.

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

Arnold, Matthew

33.

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

34.

Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

35.

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; she requires the hand of time.

Voltaire

36.

A very little thief of occasion will rob you of a great deal of patience.

William Shakespeare

37.

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

38.

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

Carrey, Jim

39.

Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

40.

Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

41.

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.

42.

Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

43.

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.

44.

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

Saying, Traditional

45.

Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

46.

Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

47.

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

48.

Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

49.

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

Margaret Thatcher

50.

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

Mcglashen, Bill