Motivational Quotes

Patience

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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Best Quotes about Patience

If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big.

Hesiod

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

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

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Carrey, Jim

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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 a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Helen Keller

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It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

Elizabeth Taylor

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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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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

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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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Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

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

William Shakespeare

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

Massinger, Philip

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

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

Arnold, Matthew

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Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

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You will conquer by patience.

Motto

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

William Shakespeare

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

Margaret Thatcher

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Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

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

Franz Kafka

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Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Let me look upward into the branches of the flowering oak and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

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

George Jackson

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

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Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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