Motivational Quotes

Patience

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.

Best Quotes about Patience

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Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

2.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

3.

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.

4.

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

Hesiod

5.

Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

6.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

7.

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

Cobbett, William

8.

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 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

10.

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

Roux, Joseph

11.

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

Proverb, Spanish

12.

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

13.

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

Franz Kafka

14.

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

15.

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

Prescott, W. B.

16.

Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

17.

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

Saadi

18.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

Helen Keller

19.

Patience is counting down without blasting off

20.

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

Perera, George

21.

Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

23.

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

24.

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

Proverb, Chinese

25.

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

Johnson, Barbara

26.

Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

27.

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

Bushnell, Horace

28.

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.

29.

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

Voltaire

30.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

31.

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

Epictetus

32.

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

Saying, Traditional

33.

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

Margaret Thatcher

34.

Patience carries a lot of wait

35.

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

36.

Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

37.

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 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

39.

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

Bacon, Francis

40.

Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

41.

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

42.

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

William Shakespeare

43.

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

44.

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

45.

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

46.

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

Arnold, Matthew

47.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

48.

You will conquer by patience.

Motto

49.

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

50.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De