Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- George Jackson

Best Quotes about Patience

1.

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

Shakespeare, William

2.

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.

3.

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

Arnold, Matthew

4.

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

5.

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

Cobbett, William

6.

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

Massinger, Philip

7.

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

Bacon, Francis

8.

Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

9.

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

10.

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

11.

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.

12.

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

Saying, Traditional

13.

All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.

Kafka, Franz

14.

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

Prescott, W. B.

15.

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

16.

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

17.

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

Elizabeth Taylor

18.

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

Franz Kafka

19.

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

Bhagavad Gita

20.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

21.

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

William Shakespeare

22.

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

Proverb, Spanish

23.

If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big.

Hesiod

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

27.

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

Isaac Newton

28.

A very little thief of occasion will rob you of a great deal of patience.

William Shakespeare

29.

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

30.

Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

31.

Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Proverb, Chinese

35.

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

William Shakespeare

36.

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

William Shakespeare

37.

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.

38.

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 be powerless to vex your mind.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

39.

Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

40.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

41.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

42.

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

43.

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

Saadi

44.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

45.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

46.

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.