Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

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Best Quotes about Patience

The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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.

Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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

William Shakespeare

You will conquer by patience.

Motto

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

Helen Keller

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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

11.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

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

Saying, Traditional

15.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

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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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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

William Shakespeare

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Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

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

William Shakespeare

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Patience is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not.

Granville, George

23.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

27.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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

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

Epictetus

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Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.

Brian Adams

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Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

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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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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

George Jackson

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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 means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Perera, George

41.

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

Carrey, Jim

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

Massinger, Philip

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

Margaret Thatcher

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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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Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

49.

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

Franz Kafka

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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