Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

Best Quotes about Patience

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

George Jackson

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

William Shakespeare

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Margaret Thatcher

Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

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

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

Massinger, Philip

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

Isaac Newton

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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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Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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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 is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

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Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Voltaire

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Patience is counting down without blasting off

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

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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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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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Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Saadi

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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You will conquer by patience.

Motto

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

Granville, George

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

Forbes, B. C.

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