Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Patience

Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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.

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

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

Prescott, W. B.

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

Bacon, Francis

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 counting down without blasting off

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

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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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Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

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

William Shakespeare

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

Massinger, Philip

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

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

George Jackson

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

Perera, George

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Voltaire

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

Granville, George

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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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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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Every man must patiently bide his time. He must wait -- not in listless idleness but in constant, steady, cheerful endeavors, always willing and fulfilling and accomplishing his task, that when the occasion comes he may be equal to the occasion.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Isaac Newton

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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 when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

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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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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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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.

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

William Shakespeare

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Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]