Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Carrey, Jim

Best Quotes about Patience

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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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.

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

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

Mcglashen, Bill

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

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.

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

Arnold, Matthew

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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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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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.

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Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

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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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Patience is counting down without blasting off

15.

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 the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Epictetus

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

20.

A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

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

Bacon, Francis

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

William Shakespeare

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

Margaret Thatcher

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

Carrey, Jim

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

Saadi

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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 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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Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

34.

Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

35.

You will conquer by patience.

Motto

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Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Massinger, Philip

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Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

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Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

41.

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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 permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord when we are tossed about by suffering as if by surf. When the undertow grasps us we will realize that we are somehow being carried forward even as we tumble. We are actually being -helped even as we cry for help.

Maxwell, Neal A.

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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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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 will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.