Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Arnold, Matthew

Best Quotes about Patience

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Isaac Newton

A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Elizabeth Taylor

Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, Chinese

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.

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Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

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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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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

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

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Helen Keller

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

Roux, Joseph

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

Franz Kafka

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

William Shakespeare

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

George Jackson

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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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Patience carries a lot of wait

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

Margaret Thatcher

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Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

William Shakespeare

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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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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.

Faulkner, William

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

Saying, Traditional

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Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Saadi

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Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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

William Shakespeare

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

Shakespeare, William

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Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

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Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

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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.