Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Patience

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

You will conquer by patience.

Motto

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

Isaac Newton

Patience carries a lot of wait

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

William Shakespeare

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

Helen Keller

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.

10.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

11.

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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Little by little, through patience and repeated effort, the mind will become stilled in the Self.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Perera, George

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Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

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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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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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Voltaire

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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 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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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

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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.

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

Roux, Joseph

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

Franz Kafka

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

George Jackson

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

Arnold, Matthew

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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 will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

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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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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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

Bacon, Francis

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