Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Hesiod

Best Quotes about Patience

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

Saadi

Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

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

Elizabeth Taylor

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

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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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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

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

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Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Franz Kafka

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Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

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

George Jackson

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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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You will conquer by patience.

Motto

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

Massinger, Philip

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

Johnson, Barbara

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Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

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

Arnold, Matthew

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Carrey, Jim

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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 is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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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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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

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Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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Patience is counting down without blasting off

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Patience. A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Isaac Newton

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

Margaret Thatcher

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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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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