Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Faulkner, William

Best Quotes about Patience

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

Roux, Joseph

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

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.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Voltaire

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Carrey, Jim

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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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Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

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Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

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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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Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Massinger, Philip

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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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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.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Work and wait, work and wait is what God says to us in creation.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

William Shakespeare

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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.

22.

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

Bushnell, Horace

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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 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 a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

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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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Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

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Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Faulkner, William

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

William Shakespeare

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

Margaret Thatcher

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.