Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

Best Quotes about Patience

Consider the hour-glass; there is nothing to be accomplished by rattling or shaking; you have to wait patiently until the sand, grain by grain, has run from one funnel into the other.

Morgenstern, John Christian

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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

William Shakespeare

Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Massinger, Philip

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

Bushnell, Horace

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Bacon, Francis

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Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

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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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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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Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

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

Carrey, Jim

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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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A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

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Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

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

George Jackson

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

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Saadi

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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

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Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Margaret Thatcher

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Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

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Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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

William Shakespeare

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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 the key to contentment.

Mohammed

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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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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 will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

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

Kafka, Franz

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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 carries a lot of wait

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

Stanislaw J. Lec