Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Elizabeth Taylor

Best Quotes about Patience

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

Bushnell, Horace

Those who desire to become rich, desire it at once.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.

Kafka, Franz

Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Saying, Traditional

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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 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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Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

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Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Mcglashen, Bill

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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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Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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

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

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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. A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Bacon, Francis

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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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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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 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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Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

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Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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A very little thief of occasion will rob you of a great deal of patience.

William Shakespeare

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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 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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Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

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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 the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

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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.