Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Saying, Traditional

Best Quotes about Patience

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Faulkner, William

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

William Shakespeare

Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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You will conquer by patience.

Motto

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

William Shakespeare

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

Mcglashen, Bill

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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

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

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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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Patience is counting down without blasting off

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

William Shakespeare

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Patience carries a lot of wait

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Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

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

Margaret Thatcher

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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

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

Massinger, Philip

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Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Prescott, W. B.

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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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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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A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

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

George Jackson

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

Franz Kafka

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

William Shakespeare

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Shakespeare, William

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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