Motivational Quotes

Patience

A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

- Plaut

Best Quotes about Patience

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

Patience is not active; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

George Jackson

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Thatcher, Margaret

11.

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

Faulkner, William

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

14.

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

17.

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

Voltaire

18.

Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

19.

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

20.

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.

21.

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

22.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Granville, George

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Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

26.

Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

27.

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

28.

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

Epictetus

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Patience is counting down without blasting off

31.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Saadi

34.

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.

35.

Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

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Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

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

Prescott, W. B.

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The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach-waiting for a gift from the sea.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

40.

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

Margaret Thatcher

42.

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

Mcglashen, Bill

43.

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

William Shakespeare

44.

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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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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Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

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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

48.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

49.

You will conquer by patience.

Motto

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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