Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- George Jackson

Best Quotes about Patience

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

Roux, Joseph

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

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

You will conquer by patience.

Motto

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

Helen Keller

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

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

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

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

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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Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

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A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

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

Perera, George

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Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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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

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Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

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

Voltaire

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Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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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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Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

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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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Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Patience is passion tamed.