Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

Best Quotes about Patience

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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.

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

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

Margaret Thatcher

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

Cobbett, William

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.

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Johnson, Barbara

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

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

Perera, George

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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

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

Carrey, Jim

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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

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Patience is counting down without blasting off

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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

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Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

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Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Arnold, Matthew

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

Massinger, Philip

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Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

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

William Shakespeare

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

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

32.

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

Saadi

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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

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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

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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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A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

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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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Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

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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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Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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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

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Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

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

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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

Mcglashen, Bill