Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Jackson, George Holbrook

Best Quotes about Patience

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

Hesiod

Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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.

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

Franz Kafka

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

Cobbett, William

Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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. A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

William Shakespeare

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

Margaret Thatcher

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Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

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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 a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Saadi

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

Shakespeare, William

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Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

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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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We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

Helen Keller

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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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

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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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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Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

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

George Jackson

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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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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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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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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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Little by little, through patience and repeated effort, the mind will become stilled in the Self.