Motivational Quotes

Patience

Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Patience

Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Patience is counting down without blasting off

Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

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

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

William Shakespeare

Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Patience carries a lot of wait

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

Franz Kafka

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

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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

George Jackson

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

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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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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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Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Johnson, Barbara

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Carrey, Jim

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

Saadi

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

Faulkner, William

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

Prescott, W. B.

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

Perera, George

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

Margaret Thatcher

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Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

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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 is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not.

Granville, George

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

Bacon, Francis

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Patience and the passage of time do more than strength and fury.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

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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Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

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

Voltaire

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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