Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Franz Kafka

Best Quotes about Patience

1.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

2.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

3.

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

Kafka, Franz

4.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

5.

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

Roux, Joseph

6.

If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big.

Hesiod

7.

Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

8.

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

Proverb, Chinese

9.

It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

Elizabeth Taylor

10.

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

Perera, George

11.

Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

12.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

16.

Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

17.

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

18.

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

Proverb, Spanish

19.

Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

20.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

21.

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

Cobbett, William

22.

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

William Shakespeare

23.

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

Margaret Thatcher

24.

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

Carrey, Jim

25.

You will conquer by patience.

Motto

26.

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

Epictetus

27.

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

28.

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.

29.

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

Franz Kafka

30.

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

31.

Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

32.

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

Faulkner, William

33.

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

34.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

35.

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

Isaac Newton

36.

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

Bacon, Francis

37.

Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

38.

A very little thief of occasion will rob you of a great deal of patience.

William Shakespeare

39.

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

Mcglashen, Bill

40.

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

41.

Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

42.

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

43.

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

William Shakespeare

44.

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

William Shakespeare

45.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

50.

All things come to him who waits -- provided he knows what he is waiting for.

Wilson, Woodrow T.