Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Cobbett, William

Best Quotes about Patience

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

Saadi

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

Shakespeare, William

Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Saying, Traditional

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

William Shakespeare

Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

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

10.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success.

Maistre, Joseph De

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Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

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

George Jackson

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

Arnold, Matthew

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

Helen Keller

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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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Of all the things that tax a man's patience, there's nothing to compare with a stuck zipper.

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Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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.

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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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Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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A very little thief of occasion will rob you of a great deal of 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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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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How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees.

William Shakespeare

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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

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Perera, George

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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.

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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Elizabeth Taylor

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You will conquer by patience.

Motto

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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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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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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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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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Patience is counting down without blasting off

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

Epictetus

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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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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