Motivational Quotes

Patience

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in one ahead.

- Mcglashen, Bill

Best Quotes about Patience

1.

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

2.

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

Hesiod

3.

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

William Shakespeare

4.

Patience carries a lot of wait

5.

The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

6.

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

George Jackson

7.

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

Prescott, W. B.

8.

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

9.

Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

10.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

11.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

12.

Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

13.

It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

Elizabeth Taylor

14.

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

Johnson, Barbara

15.

Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

16.

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

17.

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

Bushnell, Horace

18.

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

William Shakespeare

19.

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.

20.

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

21.

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

22.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in one ahead.

Mcglashen, Bill

23.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

24.

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

Franz Kafka

25.

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

26.

Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

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.

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

29.

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

Perera, George

30.

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.

31.

Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

32.

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

Saadi

33.

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

34.

You will conquer by patience.

Motto

35.

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

Bacon, Francis

36.

Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

37.

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

Carrey, Jim

38.

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

39.

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

40.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

41.

Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

42.

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

43.

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

Epictetus

44.

Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

45.

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.

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

50.

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

William Shakespeare