Motivational Quotes

Patience

It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.

- Bushnell, Horace

Best Quotes about Patience

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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

Mcglashen, Bill

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

Elizabeth Taylor

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

William Shakespeare

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

Helen Keller

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bacon, Francis

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Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

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

Massinger, Philip

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

Kafka, Franz

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You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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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

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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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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Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

Johnson, Barbara

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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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Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

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Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

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

George Jackson

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Margaret Thatcher

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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 the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

William Shakespeare

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

Arnold, Matthew

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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

William Shakespeare

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

Carrey, Jim

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

Bhagavad Gita

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A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

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Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

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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