Motivational Quotes

Patience

Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

- Ma, Sri Anandamayi

Best Quotes about Patience

A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

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

Massinger, Philip

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

George Jackson

All things come to him who waits -- provided he knows what he is waiting for.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Proverb, Chinese

Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Bushnell, Horace

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Granville, George

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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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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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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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Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Saying, Traditional

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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 a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

31.

Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

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

William Shakespeare

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Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Franz Kafka

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

Hesiod

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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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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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You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Saadi

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

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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