Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Chesterfield, Lord

Best Quotes about Patience

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.

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

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

Isaac Newton

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

Arnold, Matthew

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

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

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

Elizabeth Taylor

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

Cobbett, William

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Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

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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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Patience and the passage of time do more than strength and fury.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

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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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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Margaret Thatcher

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Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Patience is counting down without blasting off

22.

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

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

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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 is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Helen Keller

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

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Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

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Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

34.

You will conquer by patience.

Motto

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Shakespeare, William

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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 is passion tamed.