Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Forbes, B. C.

Best Quotes about Patience

Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Roux, Joseph

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Prescott, W. B.

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

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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 greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

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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 will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

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Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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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Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Shakespeare, William

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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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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Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Saadi

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

Massinger, Philip

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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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Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

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

Granville, George

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

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Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

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Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Voltaire

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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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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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Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

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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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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

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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