Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Proverb, Spanish

Best Quotes about Patience

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

Franz Kafka

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

Saying, Traditional

Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

Forbes, B. C.

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

George Jackson

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

Saadi

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

Carrey, Jim

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

William Shakespeare

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Massinger, Philip

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Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow -- that is patience.

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Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

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

Prescott, W. B.

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

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Leonardo da Vinci

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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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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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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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

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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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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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Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

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Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

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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 key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

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Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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

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A very little thief of occasion will rob you of a great deal of patience.

William Shakespeare

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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Patience. A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William