Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Holland, Josiah Gilbert

Best Quotes about Patience

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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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

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

Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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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Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

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

Voltaire

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

Saadi

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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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Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

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Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Franz Kafka

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Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Bhagavad Gita

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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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How poor are they that 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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Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

William Shakespeare

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

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

Perera, George

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Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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 key to contentment.

Mohammed

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

Carrey, Jim

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

Prescott, W. B.

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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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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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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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