Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- La Fontaine, Jean De

Best Quotes about Patience

Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

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Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

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

Franz Kafka

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

Prescott, W. B.

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

William Shakespeare

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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 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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Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Margaret Thatcher

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Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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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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 carries a lot of wait

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Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Saadi

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Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them -- every day begin the task anew -

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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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 counting down without blasting off

41.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in one ahead.

Mcglashen, Bill

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

Massinger, Philip

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

Perera, George

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A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

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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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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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Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

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

Saying, Traditional