Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Forbes, B. C.

Best Quotes about Patience

Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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

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 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.

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Isaac Newton

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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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Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

William Shakespeare

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

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Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

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

Voltaire

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

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Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

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

Carrey, Jim

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

Margaret Thatcher

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Massinger, Philip

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

George Jackson

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

William Shakespeare

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

Helen Keller

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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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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.

Faulkner, William

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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