Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Kafka, Franz

Best Quotes about Patience

1.

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

William Shakespeare

2.

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

3.

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

Helen Keller

4.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

5.

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

William Shakespeare

6.

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

Shakespeare, William

7.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

8.

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

9.

Dios tarda pero no olvida -- God delays but doesn't forget.

Proverb, Spanish

10.

Patience carries a lot of wait

11.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

12.

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

13.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

14.

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

William Shakespeare

15.

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

16.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

17.

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

18.

Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

19.

Patience in the present, faith in the future, and joy in the doing

Perera, George

20.

Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

21.

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.

22.

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

Granville, George

23.

If I'm not back in five minutes... just wait longer!

Carrey, Jim

24.

Patience is counting down without blasting off

25.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

26.

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

Mcglashen, Bill

27.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

28.

Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

29.

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

30.

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

George Jackson

31.

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

Margaret Thatcher

32.

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

33.

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

Franz Kafka

34.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

35.

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

36.

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

Saadi

37.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

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

39.

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

Johnson, Barbara

40.

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

41.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

42.

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

Voltaire

43.

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

44.

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