Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

Best Quotes about Patience

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

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

Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

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

Bushnell, Horace

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

William Shakespeare

Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

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

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

George Jackson

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

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

Margaret Thatcher

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

William Shakespeare

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Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

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

Prescott, W. B.

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Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

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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 is counting down without blasting off

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Arnold, Matthew

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

Perera, George

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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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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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Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

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Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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