Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

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Best Quotes about Patience

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

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

Arnold, Matthew

Work and wait, work and wait is what God says to us in creation.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

William Shakespeare

A high hope for a low heaven: God grant us patience!

William Shakespeare

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

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You will conquer by patience.

Motto

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

Franz Kafka

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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 is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

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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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In all evils which admits a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes the time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might remove the cause.

Johnson, Samuel

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Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

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Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Prescott, W. B.

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Perera, George

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

Bacon, Francis

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Patience carries a lot of wait

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

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

Isaac Newton

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

Voltaire

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

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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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. A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Mcglashen, Bill

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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.