Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Patience

1.

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

Forbes, B. C.

2.

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

Saadi

3.

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

Roux, Joseph

4.

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

5.

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

Cobbett, William

6.

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 be powerless to vex your mind.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

7.

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

Saying, Traditional

8.

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

9.

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

Shakespeare, William

10.

Little by little, through patience and repeated effort, the mind will become stilled in the Self.

Bhagavad Gita

11.

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.

12.

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

Hesiod

13.

With close-lipped Patience for our only friend, Sad Patience, too near neighbor to Despair.

Arnold, Matthew

14.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

15.

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.

16.

Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

17.

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

18.

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

Faulkner, William

19.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

20.

Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

21.

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

22.

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

23.

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

Proverb, Spanish

24.

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

Kafka, Franz

25.

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

Mcglashen, Bill

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

30.

Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

31.

Patience is counting down without blasting off

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

35.

Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

36.

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.

37.

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

38.

Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

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

William Shakespeare

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Isaac Newton

43.

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

Margaret Thatcher

44.

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

Bacon, Francis

45.

Patience carries a lot of wait