Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Patience

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

Johnson, Barbara

It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.

Cobbett, William

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

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

Arnold, Matthew

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

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

Margaret Thatcher

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

William Shakespeare

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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Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Perera, George

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

Mcglashen, Bill

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

Saadi

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Patience carries a lot of wait

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Every man must patiently bide his time. He must wait -- not in listless idleness but in constant, steady, cheerful endeavors, always willing and fulfilling and accomplishing his task, that when the occasion comes he may be equal to the occasion.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

William Shakespeare

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

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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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There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

Roux, Joseph

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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 not active; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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.

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Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

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

Franz Kafka

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Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Prescott, W. B.

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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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Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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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. A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Massinger, Philip

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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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Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

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Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

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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