Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Patience

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Bacon, Francis

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.

Franz Kafka

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

William Shakespeare

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

Epictetus

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

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

10.

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

Proverb, Chinese

11.

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

12.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

14.

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

Faulkner, William

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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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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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Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

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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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Patience is counting down without blasting off

20.

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

21.

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

Bushnell, Horace

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You will conquer by patience.

Motto

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

Margaret Thatcher

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

William Shakespeare

28.

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

29.

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

Carrey, Jim

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Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

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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

32.

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

Hesiod

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Leonardo da Vinci

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Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Voltaire

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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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Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

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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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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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Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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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

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Saadi

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