Motivational Quotes

Patience

Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Patience

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

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

Saadi

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

Perera, George

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

Bacon, Francis

Patience is counting down without blasting off

You will conquer by patience.

Motto

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

Massinger, Philip

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

William Shakespeare

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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

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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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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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A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

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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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Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

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If you are tempted to lose patience with your fellowman; stop and think how patient God has been with you.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

George Jackson

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Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Isaac Newton

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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 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 will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

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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 carries a lot of wait

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

Franz Kafka

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Leonardo da Vinci

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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

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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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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Prescott, W. B.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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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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Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.