Motivational Quotes

Patience

Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Patience

Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

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

Franz Kafka

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

Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Epictetus

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

Chesterfield, Lord

Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Arnold, Matthew

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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Helen Keller

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Voltaire

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

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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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Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

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

William Shakespeare

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

Saadi

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Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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You will conquer by patience.

Motto

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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 support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

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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.

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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

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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

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

Faulkner, William

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

41.

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. A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Little by little, through patience and repeated effort, the mind will become stilled in the Self.

Bhagavad Gita

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Patience is counting down without blasting off

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

Prescott, W. B.

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Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

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Patience carries a lot of wait

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

Roux, Joseph

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

Johnson, Barbara