Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Patience

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

Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

Johnson, Barbara

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

Mcglashen, Bill

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

Prescott, W. B.

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

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

Perera, George

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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Be patient. The path of self-discipline that leads to God-realization is not an easy path: obstacles and sufferings are on the path; the latter you must bear, and the former overcome -- all by His help. His help comes only through concentration. Repetition of God's name helps concentration.

Ramdas, Swami

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

William Shakespeare

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

Cobbett, 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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Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

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

William Shakespeare

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

Saying, Traditional

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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Carrey, Jim

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Franz Kafka

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

Bacon, Francis

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Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

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

Faulkner, William

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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 be powerless to vex your mind.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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.

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

William Shakespeare

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Patience is counting down without blasting off

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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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Leonardo da Vinci

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

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

Roux, Joseph

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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