Motivational Quotes

Patience

The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Patience

1.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

3.

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

4.

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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Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

6.

Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

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

Faulkner, William

8.

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

William Shakespeare

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There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

Roux, Joseph

10.

Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

11.

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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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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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 the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

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

17.

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

18.

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

Mcglashen, Bill

19.

Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

20.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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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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Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

26.

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

Granville, George

27.

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

Arnold, Matthew

28.

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

Epictetus

30.

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

31.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

32.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

33.

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

William Shakespeare

34.

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

William Shakespeare

35.

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

36.

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

William Shakespeare

37.

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

Margaret Thatcher

38.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

39.

Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

40.

Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

41.

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

42.

Patience is counting down without blasting off

43.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

44.

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

45.

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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