Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Massinger, Philip

Best Quotes about Patience

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

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 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

Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow -- that is patience.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Arnold, Matthew

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

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

Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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

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

William Shakespeare

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Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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 counting down without blasting off

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

Carrey, Jim

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

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

Perera, George

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

William Shakespeare

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Epictetus

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Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

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

Margaret Thatcher

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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 when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Massinger, Philip

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

Saadi

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

George Jackson

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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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Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

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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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