Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

Best Quotes about Patience

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

Prescott, W. B.

Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Mcglashen, Bill

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

Granville, George

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

Cobbett, William

Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow -- that is patience.

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

Shakespeare, 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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Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Carrey, Jim

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

Bacon, Francis

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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

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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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Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

William Shakespeare

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Patience carries a lot of wait

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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

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

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

Perera, George

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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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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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Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

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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 counting down without blasting off

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

Saadi

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Franz Kafka

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

William Shakespeare

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

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

Massinger, Philip

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Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

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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