Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

Best Quotes about Patience

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

Prescott, W. B.

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

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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.

Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Granville, George

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

Maistre, Joseph De

10.

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

11.

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

Johnson, Barbara

12.

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

15.

Patience carries a lot of wait

16.

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

Carrey, Jim

17.

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

Roux, Joseph

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

Helen Keller

20.

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

Faulkner, William

21.

Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

22.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

23.

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

William Shakespeare

24.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

William Shakespeare

28.

Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

29.

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

30.

Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

31.

Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

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

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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.

35.

Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

36.

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

Massinger, Philip

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

Arnold, Matthew

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Patience and the passage of time do more than strength and fury.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

William Shakespeare

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

Saying, Traditional

42.

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

Forbes, B. C.

46.

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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You will conquer by patience.

Motto

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