Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Saadi

Best Quotes about Patience

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

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

William Shakespeare

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

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

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

Epictetus

All things come to him who waits -- provided he knows what he is waiting for.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Patience carries a lot of wait

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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

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

Roux, Joseph

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

Saadi

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

George Jackson

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

Shakespeare, William

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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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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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You will conquer by patience.

Motto

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

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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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Victor Hugo

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Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Franz Kafka

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Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Margaret Thatcher

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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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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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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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Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

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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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Patience in the present, faith in the future, and joy in the doing

Perera, George

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

Johnson, Barbara

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Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed