Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Cobbett, William

Best Quotes about Patience

Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Faulkner, William

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength

Colton, Charles Caleb

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.

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

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

Carrey, Jim

Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

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Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Arnold, Matthew

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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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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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Perfection is attained by slow degrees; she requires the hand of time.

Voltaire

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Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

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

William Shakespeare

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Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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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 best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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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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Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

William Shakespeare

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

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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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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 will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

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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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Patience is not active; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Patience is counting down without blasting off

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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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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?

Shakespeare, William

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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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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 carries a lot of wait

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Massinger, Philip

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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