Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Patience

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

Arnold, Matthew

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

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

Bhagavad Gita

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.

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

Johnson, Barbara

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.

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

Voltaire

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

Massinger, Philip

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

Proverb, Spanish

10.

Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

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Patience is counting down without blasting off

12.

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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Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

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You will conquer by patience.

Motto

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

Carrey, Jim

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

William Shakespeare

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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, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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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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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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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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Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

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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 passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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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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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

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

William Shakespeare

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

Prescott, W. B.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Patience carries a lot of wait

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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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Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Epictetus

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

William Shakespeare

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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

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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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Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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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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Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo