Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Best Quotes about Patience

Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

Massinger, Philip

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

Granville, George

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

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

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

Voltaire

In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.

Prescott, W. B.

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

Franz Kafka

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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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Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

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

William Shakespeare

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

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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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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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A high hope for a low heaven: God grant us patience!

William Shakespeare

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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

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

Shakespeare, William

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You will conquer by patience.

Motto

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Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Faulkner, William

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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Patience is counting down without blasting off