Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Bhagavad Gita

Best Quotes about Patience

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

Patience is not active; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bushnell, Horace

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

Isaac Newton

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Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

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

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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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If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big.

Hesiod

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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.

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Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

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

William Shakespeare

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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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.

Schaef, Anne W.

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Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

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

Carrey, Jim

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

Mcglashen, Bill

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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

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

Prescott, W. B.

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Patience carries a lot of wait

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

William Shakespeare

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Cobbett, William

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

Saying, Traditional

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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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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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Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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

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

William Shakespeare