Motivational Quotes

Patience

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.

Best Quotes about Patience

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

Saadi

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

William Shakespeare

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

If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

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

Carrey, Jim

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

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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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A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

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

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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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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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Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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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 the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not.

Granville, George

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Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

William Shakespeare

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

Margaret Thatcher

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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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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.

Faulkner, William

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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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Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

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

Prescott, W. B.

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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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

Voltaire

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Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

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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

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Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

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Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

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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