Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Patience

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

William Shakespeare

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

Franz Kafka

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Roux, Joseph

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Shakespeare, William

It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.

Bushnell, Horace

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

George Jackson

10.

Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper sprinkle cool patience.

William Shakespeare

11.

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

12.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

13.

You will conquer by patience.

Motto

14.

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

15.

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

Perera, George

16.

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

17.

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

18.

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

Proverb, Spanish

19.

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

Johnson, Barbara

20.

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

Voltaire

21.

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

22.

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.

23.

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.

24.

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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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

26.

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

27.

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

William Shakespeare

28.

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

Bacon, Francis

29.

Patience carries a lot of wait

30.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

32.

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

33.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

34.

Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 be powerless to vex your mind.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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

37.

Patience is counting down without blasting off

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.

Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

40.

Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

41.

Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

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Patience means self-suffering.