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 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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Isaac Newton

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

Epictetus

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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 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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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

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Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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 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

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Patience is counting down without blasting off

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

William Shakespeare

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

Mcglashen, Bill

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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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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Patience carries a lot of wait

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

Arnold, Matthew

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

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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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Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

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

Perera, George

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Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

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Patience is sottish, and impatience does become a dog that's mad.

William Shakespeare

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

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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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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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Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

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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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