Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Perera, George

Best Quotes about Patience

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

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

William Shakespeare

Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Proverb, Chinese

You will conquer by patience.

Motto

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.

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

10.

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

11.

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

Cobbett, William

12.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

13.

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

14.

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

William Shakespeare

15.

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

George Jackson

16.

Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

17.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

18.

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

19.

Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.

Brian Adams

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.

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

Roux, Joseph

22.

All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.

Kafka, Franz

23.

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

Carrey, Jim

24.

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

Isaac Newton

25.

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

Massinger, Philip

26.

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

Franz Kafka

27.

Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.

Chesterfield, Lord

29.

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

Prescott, W. B.

30.

Patience carries a lot of wait

31.

The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

Patience is counting down without blasting off

33.

Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

34.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

35.

Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

36.

Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

37.

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

Bacon, Francis

38.

Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

39.

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

Saying, Traditional

40.

Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

41.

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

William Shakespeare

42.

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

43.

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

44.

A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

45.

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

46.

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

47.

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

Shakespeare, William