Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Maistre, Joseph De

Best Quotes about Patience

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

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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

Isaac Newton

Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

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

Franz Kafka

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

10.

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

Helen Keller

11.

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

Granville, George

12.

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

Hesiod

13.

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

Proverb, Chinese

14.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

15.

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.

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Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Thatcher, Margaret

18.

Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.

Chesterfield, Lord

19.

Patience is counting down without blasting off

20.

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

Johnson, Barbara

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

Mcglashen, Bill

22.

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

Epictetus

23.

Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

24.

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

Saadi

25.

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

Roux, Joseph

26.

Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

27.

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

28.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

30.

Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

31.

Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

32.

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

33.

A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

34.

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 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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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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Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

38.

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

William Shakespeare

40.

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

41.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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

44.

You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Saying, Traditional

46.

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

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

William Shakespeare

48.

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 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