Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

Best Quotes about Patience

1.

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

Mcglashen, Bill

2.

Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

3.

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

4.

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

Roux, Joseph

5.

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

William Shakespeare

6.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

7.

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

8.

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

Saadi

9.

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

Johnson, Barbara

10.

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

Elizabeth Taylor

11.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

12.

Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

13.

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

14.

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.

15.

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

Voltaire

16.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

17.

Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

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

19.

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

Isaac Newton

20.

A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

21.

You will conquer by patience.

Motto

22.

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

23.

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

William Shakespeare

24.

Patience is counting down without blasting off

25.

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.

26.

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

27.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

31.

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

32.

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

George Jackson

33.

Those who desire to become rich, desire it at once.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

34.

In all evils which admits a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes the time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might remove the cause.

Johnson, Samuel

35.

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

Cobbett, William

36.

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

Saying, Traditional

37.

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

Massinger, Philip

38.

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

39.

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

Proverb, Spanish

40.

Patience carries a lot of wait

41.

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

Prescott, W. B.

42.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

43.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

44.

Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

45.

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

Proverb, Chinese

46.

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

47.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

48.

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

William Shakespeare

49.

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

50.

Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi