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

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

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow -- that is patience.

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

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

Elizabeth Taylor

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

Margaret Thatcher

Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

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

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

10.

All things come to him who waits -- provided he knows what he is waiting for.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

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

Hesiod

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Patience carries a lot of wait

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

Prescott, W. B.

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

Franz Kafka

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Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

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The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

Epictetus

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

William Shakespeare

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A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

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

Carrey, Jim

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

27.

Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

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

Saadi

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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 not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.

Bushnell, Horace

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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 the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

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

Johnson, Barbara

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Voltaire

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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

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Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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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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Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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