Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Perera, George

Best Quotes about Patience

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.

Of all the things that tax a man's patience, there's nothing to compare with a stuck zipper.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Mcglashen, Bill

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Voltaire

Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Perera, George

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 is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

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Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

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Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Kafka, Franz

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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

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Prescott, W. B.

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Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Franz Kafka

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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 carries a lot of wait

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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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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 the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

Johnson, Barbara

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

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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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Patience is not active; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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Patience is counting down without blasting off

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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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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