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

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

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

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

George Jackson

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

Elizabeth Taylor

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

Franz Kafka

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

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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Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

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Patience is counting down without blasting off

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

Margaret Thatcher

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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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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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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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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Faulkner, William

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

Mcglashen, Bill

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

Roux, Joseph

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Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

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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 is sottish, and impatience does become a dog that's mad.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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

Massinger, Philip

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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

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You will conquer by patience.

Motto

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Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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