Motivational Quotes

Patience

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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Best Quotes about Patience

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

Mcglashen, Bill

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

Perera, George

Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Prescott, W. B.

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.

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

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

Arnold, Matthew

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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Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

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

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Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

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Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Franz Kafka

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A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

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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 is counting down without blasting off

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The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

Epictetus

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

Helen Keller

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

George Jackson

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

Voltaire

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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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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 passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

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Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

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

Massinger, Philip

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Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

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

Granville, George

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Carrey, Jim

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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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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.

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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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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 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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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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

William Shakespeare