Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

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Best Quotes about Patience

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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.

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

Mcglashen, Bill

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 best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

William Shakespeare

Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.

Kafka, Franz

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 then be powerless to vex your mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Arnold, Matthew

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Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

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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 patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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You will conquer by patience.

Motto

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

Faulkner, William

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Perera, George

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Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

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Of all the things that tax a man's patience, there's nothing to compare with a stuck zipper.

36.

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

Carrey, Jim

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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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Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

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

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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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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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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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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Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

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Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder