Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Patience

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.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

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.

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

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Saying, Traditional

Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Carrey, Jim

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

Prescott, W. B.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

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Had it pleas'd heaven to try me with affliction... I should have found in some place of my soul a drop of patience.

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

William Shakespeare

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Patience carries a lot of wait

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

William Shakespeare

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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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

Helen Keller

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

Margaret Thatcher

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

Franz Kafka

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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 passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Perera, George

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

Voltaire

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Patience is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not.

Granville, George

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

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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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Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Johnson, Barbara