Motivational Quotes

Patience

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

- Cato the Elder

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

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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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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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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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 is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

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Every man must patiently bide his time. He must wait -- not in listless idleness but in constant, steady, cheerful endeavors, always willing and fulfilling and accomplishing his task, that when the occasion comes he may be equal to the occasion.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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 is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

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

Granville, George

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

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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 counting down without blasting off

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Mcglashen, Bill

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

William Shakespeare

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Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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 carries a lot of wait

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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

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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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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Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

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Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them -- every day begin the task anew -

Francis De Sales, St.

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

George Jackson

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

Prescott, W. B.

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