Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Carrey, Jim

Best Quotes about Patience

1.

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

2.

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

3.

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

Forbes, B. C.

4.

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

William Shakespeare

5.

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

Prescott, W. B.

6.

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

7.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

8.

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

Epictetus

9.

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

William Shakespeare

10.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

11.

Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

12.

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

Voltaire

13.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

14.

A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

15.

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

Carrey, Jim

16.

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

William Shakespeare

17.

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

18.

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

Margaret Thatcher

19.

Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

20.

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

Arnold, Matthew

21.

Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

26.

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

27.

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

Mcglashen, Bill

28.

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.

29.

Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.

Chesterfield, Lord

30.

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

31.

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

George Jackson

32.

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

Roux, Joseph

33.

All things come to him who waits -- provided he knows what he is waiting for.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

34.

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

35.

Patience is counting down without blasting off

36.

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

37.

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

38.

Patience carries a lot of wait

39.

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

40.

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

41.

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

Perera, George

42.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

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

44.

Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

45.

Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

46.

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

Massinger, Philip

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Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke