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

1.

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

2.

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

Perera, George

3.

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

4.

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

Isaac Newton

5.

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

6.

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

William Shakespeare

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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.

10.

Patience is counting down without blasting off

11.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

12.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

13.

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

William Shakespeare

14.

Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

15.

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

Faulkner, William

16.

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

Forbes, B. C.

17.

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

Helen Keller

18.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

19.

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.

20.

Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.

Chesterfield, Lord

21.

It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.

Bushnell, Horace

22.

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

23.

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

24.

Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

25.

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

George Jackson

26.

Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

27.

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

Shakespeare, William

28.

Patience carries a lot of wait

29.

Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

30.

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

William Shakespeare

31.

You will conquer by patience.

Motto

32.

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

Prescott, W. B.

33.

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

Carrey, Jim

34.

Patience is not active; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

35.

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

36.

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

37.

Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

38.

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

William Shakespeare

39.

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

Proverb, Spanish

40.

Patience is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not.

Granville, George

41.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

42.

Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

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

Voltaire

44.

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.

45.

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

William Shakespeare

46.

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

47.

Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

48.

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

Saying, Traditional

49.

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

50.

Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.