Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Margaret Thatcher

Best Quotes about Patience

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

Proverb, Spanish

Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

Johnson, Barbara

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

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.

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

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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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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 is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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

Saadi

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

Voltaire

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Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

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Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

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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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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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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

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Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

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Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.

Cobbett, William

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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 passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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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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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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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.

43.

You will conquer by patience.

Motto

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I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.

Einstein, Albert

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

Margaret Thatcher

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With close-lipped Patience for our only friend, Sad Patience, too near neighbor to Despair.

Arnold, Matthew

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

Roux, Joseph

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Patience and the passage of time do more than strength and fury.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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