Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Saadi

Best Quotes about Patience

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

William Shakespeare

Patience carries a lot of wait

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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

Bierce, Ambrose

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, Spanish

Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

10.

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

Massinger, Philip

11.

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

Margaret Thatcher

12.

Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

13.

Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

14.

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

15.

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

Hesiod

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

24.

Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

25.

Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

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

George Jackson

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.

Bushnell, Horace

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Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

30.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

34.

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

Bhagavad Gita

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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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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

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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 passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

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

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

44.

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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Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

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

Voltaire

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