Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Forbes, B. C.

Best Quotes about Patience

Patience is counting down without blasting off

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

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

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

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

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.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

Chaplin, Charlie

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

Helen Keller

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

William Shakespeare

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

Franz Kafka

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Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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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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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

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

Prescott, W. B.

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Forbes, B. C.

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Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Carrey, Jim

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

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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

George Jackson

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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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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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Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Perera, George

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

Margaret Thatcher

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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 carries a lot of wait

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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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.

Jackson, George Holbrook

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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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Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

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Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.