Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Carrey, Jim

Best Quotes about Patience

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

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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.

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

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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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Patience. A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Prescott, W. B.

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Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Perera, George

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Margaret Thatcher

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

George Jackson

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

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

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Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Patience carries a lot of wait

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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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Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

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Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

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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 is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Granville, George

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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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

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

William Shakespeare

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Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

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Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

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

Massinger, Philip

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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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Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.

Saadi