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

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

William Shakespeare

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

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.

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

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

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

Roux, Joseph

Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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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Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

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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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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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Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

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

Maistre, Joseph 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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You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

William Shakespeare

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Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Let me look upward into the branches of the flowering oak and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

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A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

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

Saadi

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

Perera, George

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Massinger, Philip

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Prescott, W. B.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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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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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

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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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Little by little, through patience and repeated effort, the mind will become stilled in the Self.

Bhagavad Gita

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Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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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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Patience carries a lot of wait