Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Perera, George

Best Quotes about Patience

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Massinger, Philip

Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

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

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.

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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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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

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A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

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

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Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

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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 when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

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You will conquer by patience.

Motto

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Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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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

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

Hesiod

27.

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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Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

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Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

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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

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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

37.

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

Roux, Joseph

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Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Patience is sottish, and impatience does become a dog that's mad.

William Shakespeare

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von