Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

Best Quotes about Patience

1.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

2.

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

3.

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

Isaac Newton

4.

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

5.

Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

6.

It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.

Cobbett, William

7.

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.

8.

Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

9.

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.

10.

Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

11.

Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

12.

Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

13.

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

14.

Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

15.

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

George Jackson

16.

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

William Shakespeare

17.

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

18.

Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

19.

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

Helen Keller

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Granville, George

23.

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

Shakespeare, William

24.

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

Roux, Joseph

25.

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

26.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

27.

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

Hesiod

28.

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

William Shakespeare

29.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

30.

With close-lipped Patience for our only friend, Sad Patience, too near neighbor to Despair.

Arnold, Matthew

31.

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

Perera, George

32.

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

Franz Kafka

33.

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

34.

Little by little, through patience and repeated effort, the mind will become stilled in the Self.

Bhagavad Gita

35.

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

36.

Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

37.

If you are tempted to lose patience with your fellowman; stop and think how patient God has been with you.

38.

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

Elizabeth Taylor

39.

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

40.

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

41.

Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

42.

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

Bushnell, Horace

43.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

44.

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

45.

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

46.

Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

47.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

48.

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

49.

You will conquer by patience.

Motto

50.

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

William Shakespeare

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