Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

Best Quotes about Patience

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.

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

Shakespeare, William

Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

Of all the things that tax a man's patience, there's nothing to compare with a stuck zipper.

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

Margaret Thatcher

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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

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

Bacon, Francis

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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 then be powerless to vex your mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

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Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

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

William Shakespeare

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

Roux, Joseph

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

William Shakespeare

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Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Patience carries a lot of wait

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

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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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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Saadi

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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.