Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Maistre, Joseph De

Best Quotes about Patience

Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

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

George Jackson

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

Margaret Thatcher

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

Granville, George

Patience carries a lot of wait

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

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

Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

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

10.

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

12.

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

William Shakespeare

13.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

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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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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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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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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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Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

Bacon, Francis

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

27.

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

28.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Epictetus

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Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

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

33.

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

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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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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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Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

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

Massinger, Philip

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

William Shakespeare

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

William Shakespeare

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

Carrey, Jim

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