Motivational Quotes

Patience

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

- Edmund Burke

Best Quotes about Patience

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

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Isaac Newton

Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Faulkner, William

Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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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.

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

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

Franz Kafka

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

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Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

19.

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

George Jackson

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

Massinger, Philip

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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.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

25.

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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Patience is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not.

Granville, George

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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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.

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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 be powerless to vex your mind.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

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

William Shakespeare

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

Saadi

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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 will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

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

Johnson, Barbara

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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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Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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 the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

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

Bushnell, Horace